INSURER AIA Singapore posted a 6 per cent rise in operating profit after tax to US$583 million for fiscal 2019 from US$558 million a year ago, it said on Thursday.
OCBC Bank on Thursday confirmed that one of its staff was diagnosed on Tuesday with the novel coronavirus.
JEFFERIES Research on Wednesday upgraded OCBC to a "buy" amid the recent sell-down on Singapore banks, arguing as well that the local trio have historically resilient earnings and dividend cushion.
PRUDENTIAL has unveiled plans to list its US unit Jackson National Life, two weeks after billionaire activist hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb called on the board of the giant insurance group to separate its Asian and US businesses.
JEFFERIES Research on Wednesday upgraded OCBC to "buy" amid the recent sell-down on Singapore banks, arguing as well that the local trio have historically resilient earnings and dividend cushion.
AMERICAN private equity giant KKR has appointed Singapore-based Wong Chee-Wei as its head of global impact for Asia.
AMID the shift towards cashlessness in this part of the world, Standard Chartered's move to digitalise payments through supply chains has driven growth in its regional cash management business, a senior executive from the bank told The Business Times (BT).
GIVEN the crimped margins in the loans business, the allure of private banking is easy to see.
PSA Treasury, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s port and terminal operator PSA International, will issue at par S$500 million worth of guaranteed notes maturing in 2030.
SINCE taking over as the euro zone's main banking supervisor, the European Central Bank has spearheaded efforts to reduce the amount of bad loans that had cumulated throughout the great recession and the euro zone sovereign debt crisis.