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SHANGHAI: China's central bank surprised markets on Monday (Nov 30) with an injection of medium-term cash into the banking system, in what traders and analysts viewed as a move to calm nerves rattled by a string of recent bond defaults. READ: China central bank tries to soothe market nerves after ......

S&P Global Inc is in advanced talks to buy IHS Markit Ltd for about US$44 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

SINGAPORE: From February next year, eligible non-bank financial institutions will have direct access to retail payment services like Fast and Secure Transfers (FAST) and PayNow.  This will allow users to make real-time funds transfers between bank accounts and e-wallets, as well as across ...

A SET of best practices for commodity financing was rolled out on Monday, the first such code for the industry in Singapore. This comes after the city-state's reputation as a trusted hub for this lending segment has taken a hit of late.

ELIGIBLE non-bank financial institutions (NFIs) in Singapore will have direct access to the banking system's real-time retail payments infrastructure from February 2021, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday.

ELIGIBLE non-bank financial institutions (NFIs) in Singapore will have direct access to the banking system's real-time retail payments infrastructure from February 2021, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday.

ELIGIBLE non-bank financial institutions (NFIs) in Singapore will have direct access to the banking system's real-time retail payments infrastructure from February 2021, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday.

The Trump administration is poised to add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to U.S. investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before ...

SINGAPORE's bank lending in October fell for the eighth straight month on continued weakness in business loans, data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore showed on Monday.

TOKYO: Japan's industrial output rose for the fifth straight month in October, fuelled by stronger machinery and car production, suggesting the economic is recovering further from the damage caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The world's third-largest economy rebounded sharply in the third quarter ...