A RECENT free trade agreement between the European Union and Singapore has paved the way for Standard Chartered Bank Singapore to raise its presence in the Republic - and possibly in time, on the digital front in the same way the Singapore banks can.
AMID the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt across the world, there are also opportunities on the entrepreneurial front, driven by digitalisation and the availability of talent.
HSBC Holdings Plc can't seem to get a break. Even the financial-market boom that buoyed profits at some banks wasn't enough to save Europe's biggest lender from missing estimates.
THE UK's biggest banks have come a long way since the financial crisis, when taxpayers had to rescue them to the tune of tens of billions of pounds. They're certainly stronger, with comfortable capital buffers, as they head into what could be the worst recession in three...
Insurer American International Group Inc on Monday posted a 56per cent fall in quarterly adjusted earnings, spurred partly by higher catastrophe losses and lower private-equity returns.
The U.S. economy, battered by a resurgence in the spread of COVID-19, needs increased government spending to tide over households and businesses and broader use of masks to better control the virus, several U.S. central bankers said on Monday.
US President Donald Trump said Monday the US government should get a "substantial portion" of the sales price of the US operations of TikTok and warned he will ban the service in the United States on Sep 15 without a sale.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday it is proposing requiring four key Boeing 737 MAX design changes to address safety issues seen in two crashes that killed 346 people and led to the plane's grounding in March 2019.
President Donald Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft Corp to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days, three people familiar with the matter said on Sunday (Aug 2).
Wall Street's main indexes rose on Monday as a rebound in multi-billion dollar deals, including Microsoft's pursuit of TikTok's U.S. operations, lifted sentiment in the absence of a fiscal coronavirus relief bill.
