DBS expects to cut its overall physical footprint by about 20 per cent as the bank moves towards a hybrid work model, with the bank's chief executive Piyush Gupta on Friday confirming that it has given up space in financial centres Singapore and Hong Kong.
DBS on Friday showed the blistering pace at which Singapore banks have recovered from the pains felt during the global Covid-19 outbreak last year, as Singapore's largest bank cracked the S$2-billion mark in quarterly net profit.
Why were the Academy Awards show blocked in China? A nationalist backlash against Nomadland director Chloe Zhao isn’t quite it, says Professor Bo Zhiyue.
Manufacturers in Singapore and beyond are increasingly embracing Industry 4.0 and integrating advanced technologies across their operations, say Matteo Mancini and Alpesh Patel of McKinsey & Company.
SINGAPORE is taking big steps to modernise the cross-border payments scene through a string of recent partnerships, in a bid to ease longstanding payment pains.
OCBC will review its office-space requirements and may cut down on its number of branches, said its chairman Ooi Sang Kuang on Thursday, during the bank's annual shareholder meeting.
HSBC has launched a new institutional family office service in Hong Kong and Singapore that will cater to family offices in Asia.
A new European Union study finds that the two decade-old legislation on genetically modified organisms should be revamped, a process environmentalists claim will open the door to a new generation of bio-engineered crops being allowed into the EU market without proper checks.
USUS$302M in BP oil spill money budgeted to restore ecosystems
More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in March after two months of declines, pointing to a healthy housing market as summer approaches and the economy continues what is shaping up to be a rapid recovery.

















