CITI has made two internal senior retail banking appointments in Asia Pacific that are based in Singapore, including a newly created role with oversight of the bank’s retail high-net worth clients as well as a new head for its Singapore retail banking arm.
FRANKLIN Templeton has completed its merger with fund management company Legg Mason at end-July with minimal staff cuts in Singapore, with the US offices absorbing most of the 8 per cent staff layoffs from its combined workforce of about 12,600.
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will jointly set up a research institute that supports the needs of digital financial services in Asia.
SWIRE Properties has signed a five-year HK$1 billion (S$177.4 million) green loan with OCBC Bank.
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will jointly set up a research institute that supports the needs of digital financial services in Asia.
TAXPAYERS can now pay their taxes using PayNow Quick Response (QR) as an option on the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore's (Iras) myTax portal for all major tax types.
A RECENT free trade agreement between the European Union and Singapore has paved the way for Standard Chartered Bank Singapore to raise its presence in the Republic - and possibly in time, on the digital front in the same way the Singapore banks can.
AMID the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt across the world, there are also opportunities on the entrepreneurial front, driven by digitalisation and the availability of talent.
HSBC Holdings Plc can't seem to get a break. Even the financial-market boom that buoyed profits at some banks wasn't enough to save Europe's biggest lender from missing estimates.
THE UK's biggest banks have come a long way since the financial crisis, when taxpayers had to rescue them to the tune of tens of billions of pounds. They're certainly stronger, with comfortable capital buffers, as they head into what could be the worst recession in three...
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