GLOBAL financial messaging network Swift and Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) have partnered to accelerate trade digitalisation around the world.
A NEW bill will be introduced in Parliament in October to establish a Simplified Insolvency Programme (SIP) to help micro and small companies restructure their debts or wind up their business in a quicker, simpler and cheaper way.
CERTAIN small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individuals facing cash flow pressures will be given more time to resume full loan repayments, as part of a slate of measures aimed to soften their landing from the Covid-19 fallout.
THE majority of insurers offering private Integrated Shield plans (IP) improved their underwriting performance in 2019, in a clear sign that a slew of measures taken over the past couple of years to dampen claims costs is working.
IMAGINE a single platform where all of some 270,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) here can get a loan quote from multiple banks - with just one application.
BY the end of 2020, some 6,500 employees from more than 3,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are expected to have attended sessions of OCBC's webinar series, created during the "circuit-breaker" to equip firms with relevant digital skills for the pandemic.
FROM next April, Central Provident Fund (CPF) members aged below 55 under the Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) will pay lower premiums in return for a higher sum assured.
SINGAPORE-HEADQUARTERED fintech startup RootAnt has bagged almost US$1.5 million in a seed funding round led by Linear Capital and with co-investor KZM & Company Group.
HONG Kong-based financial services firm AMTD Group is setting up a professional services arm, after acquiring a controlling interest in the non-assurance business of accounting and consulting firm Nexia TS for an undisclosed sum.
FROM next April, Central Provident Fund (CPF) members under the Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) will get a higher sum assured of S$70,000, up from S$46,000 at "more attractive premiums", CPF said in a press statement on Friday.