BANK lending in Singapore rose for the seventh straight month in May, growing 0.2 per cent as business loans picked up and housing loans held steady.
DIGITAL wealth platform Endowus has secured three "strategic investors", including financial services group UBS, in a further affirmation of its business model.
IFAST Corporation is leading a consortium to apply for a digital bank licence in Malaysia, it said on Wednesday.
SINGAPORE and the United Kingdom launched a new Financial Partnership at the sixth UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue held virtually on Wednesday.
CREDIT Bureau (Singapore) (CBS), a subsidiary of mainboard-listed Credit Bureau Asia (CBA), has been designated as the new operator of the Moneylenders Credit Bureau (MLCB), CBA said on Wednesday.
MALAYSIAN banks will continue to be an "Asian outlier" in their recovery path, with the road to normalisation likely to be prolonged amid the flare-up of new Covid-19 waves and fresh moratoriums, said S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday.
DIGITAL payments service provider Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets) on Wednesday said it has appointed Tan Kah Chye as an independent director to its board, with effect from June 25, 2021.
A NEW international financial alliance has proposed new rules for banks to measure the environmental and social impact of their activities, in an effort to scale up impact management and reduce deficiencies of current approaches in assessing the sector's non-financial performance.
A NEW international financial alliance has proposed new rules for banks to measure the environmental and social impact of their activities, in an effort to scale up impact management and reduce deficiencies of current approaches in assessing the sector's non-financial performance.
A FIRMER global recovery is on the cards in the second half of 2021 with the world's two largest economies the US and China witnessing strong rebounds, but downside risks remain significant, said a top executive from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).