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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will take further action, which may include introducing customer suitability tests and restricting the use of leverage and credit facilities, to reduce consumer harm arising from cryptocurrency trading.

ASSET manager BlackRock has made several appointments to boost its South-east Asia wealth business while shuffling the leadership for BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI), its sustainable investment strategies platform.

As the world grows more cognisant of the need to <a href="/companies-markets/valuing-natural-capital-asia-has-the-most-to-lose-and-gain" target="_blank">value and preserve natural capital</a>, the investment opportunities associated with it will correspondingly increase. As vast and varied as nature itself is, so are the ways for a financier to bank on natural capital.

Becoming <a href="/government-economy/bt-explains-what-is-net-zero" target="_blank">net-zero</a> is no longer going to be enough; the world needs to also be “nature-positive” - and that means going beyond minimising negative impacts on our ecosystems and working towards enhancing them, global leaders have decided.

ANTICIPATING a sluggish global environment ahead, Malayan Banking (Maybank) more than doubled its expected credit loss for loans and securities to RM1.16 billion (S$360 million) in the second quarter of this year, from RM567.2 million in the year-ago period.

THE US$2.9 billion loan facility which Olam Agri has taken out to refinance its existing loans, among other uses, involves 16 lenders that united over what are known as Poseidon Principles. 

WHEN an entrepreneur surnamed You set out to build a sales team in Shanghai in December 2020, she thought she had hired a team full of potential to sell her firm’s fund products.

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Interest in setting up family offices in Singapore has soared in recent years, driven by increasing global uncertainty and geopolitical risks, as well as the country’s reputation as a safe haven for wealth and attractive tax incentives. The number of family offices here jumped fivefold between 2017 and...

Pictet Wealth Management recently released the 2022 edition of Horizon, our 10-year view on economies, expected returns of 53 asset classes and strategic asset allocation.