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SINGAPORE’S financial regulator is taking “longer than expected” to come up with an equitable loss-sharing framework for financial scams, as it tries to ascertain how different stakeholders share responsibility for these scams, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan said in Parliament on Wednesday (Oct 5)....

THE tendency of global capital markets to overprice risks in emerging economies, as well as over-react to shocks, have not only prevented gaps in climate finance from being filled, but have also widened them, said Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

THE tendency of global capital markets to overprice risks in emerging economies, as well as over-react to shocks, have not only prevented gaps in climate finance from being filled, but have also widened them, said Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

AFTER hiking the interest rates on <a href="/banking-finance/dbs-raises-2-year-fixed-home-loan-rate-to-275-per-annum-highest-among-local-banks" target="_blank">fixed-rate home loan packages in late June</a>, DBS is raising its rates further to 3.5 per cent. This is a 0.75 percentage point rise from the earlier 2.75 per cent interest rate offered by Singapore’s largest lender.

AFTER hiking the interest rates on <a href="/banking-finance/dbs-raises-2-year-fixed-home-loan-rate-to-275-per-annum-highest-among-local-banks" target="_blank">fixed-rate home loan packages in late June</a>, DBS is raising its rates further to 3.5 per cent. This is a 0.75 percentage point rise from the earlier 2.75 per cent interest rate offered by Singapore’s largest lender.

THE trio of Singapore banks have raised the interest rates on their fixed-rate home loan packages to 3.5 per cent and above, weeks after DBS and UOB said they were reviewing their fixed-rate offerings.

SINGAPORE’S local banks have raised the interest rates on their fixed-rate home loan packages to 3.5 per cent and above, weeks after DBS and UOB said they were reviewing their fixed-rate offerings.

BLENDED finance is not new, but a fresh approach is required to scale the use of public resources to encourage private sector investments in sustainable development.

THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) is injecting seed capital into a S$5 million Asia Climate Solutions Design Grant to fund innovations in blended finance, managing director Ravi Menon said on Tuesday as he urged a fresh approach to blended finance.

MUFG Bank has appointed Angus St John as its Asia-Pacific head of financial sponsor coverage – a newly-created role based in Sydney, Australia – which takes effect immediately.