TWO Singapore banks have ramped up on efforts to boost efficiency in trade finance, an old trillion-dollar industry that until recently had been heavily based on paper documents.
FORMER Citibank Singapore's head of retail banking Charles Wong is due to join the Grab-Singtel entity that is bidding for a digital full bank in Singapore, BT understands.
MAINBOARD-LISTED Sing Investments & Finance (SIF) could lose 3 to 5 per cent of its corporate customers to digital banks. However, it'd be wrong to think that the finance company with 55 years of history is going to take this lying down.
ASIA is riding on unprecedented wealth creation, but for investment banks operating here, executing deals profitably on behalf of tycoons building business empires in this part of the world is far less straightforward.
ALL good things must come to an end. Users of mobile wallet GrabPay and its extension - the physical GrabPay Card - are fast learning this as more and more banks stop credit card rewards for GrabPay top-ups.
Bank lending ticked down by 0.2 per cent in January on a month-on-month basis amid declining business loans, preliminary Monetary Authority of Singapore data showed on Friday.
OCBC will provide abridged financial disclosures for its first-quarter and third-quarter performance in 2020, following the regulator's removal of mandatory quarterly reporting, said the lender on Thursday in response to queries from The Business Times.
FINTECHS such as peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders have burst onto the scene in the past few years to address a credit gap that they say is untouched by banks.
DBS unveiled a second round of relief measures on Wednesday to help businesses in Singapore cope amid the ongoing virus outbreak, in a move to ease companies' cash flow pressure and to push them to transform at the same time.
DBS unveiled a second round of relief measures on Wednesday to help businesses in Singapore cope amid the virus outbreak, in a move that pushes companies to go digital at the same time.