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Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet senior conservative lawmakers on Thursday to resolve a dispute in her own party over whether to bar China's Huawei from the country's 5G network rollout, party sources said.

WASHINGTON: The United States and China on Wednesday (Jan 15) signed a long-awaited, if partial, deal to ease trade frictions but other disputes abound between the Pacific powers. President Donald Trump thanked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the "incredible breakthrough" on trade and ...

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NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs reported a drop in fourth-quarter profits on Wednesday (Jan 15) following a mixed performance in its operating businesses as it set aside US$1.1 billion in anticipation of settlements on the 1MDB scandal. Chief Executive David Solomon said the "preponderance" of the US$1.1 ...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Jan 15) signed a partial new trade deal with China, hailing it as an historic win for the United States after years of mishandled trade policy. "Today, we take a momentous step, one that's never taken before with China," that will ensure "fair and...

CITI Singapore has adjusted the pay of women at its bank who, when compared with their male peers of equal work performance, did not receive equal compensation.

THE wealth management arm of UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, is said to have laid off around 20 front-office employees in Singapore last week as part of a major global restructuring led by new division co-head Iqbal Khan.

SINGAPORE'S largest lender DBS recently alerted its customers that all incoming PayNow transaction alerts will be sent via email, instead of SMS, with effect from Feb 16.

A BATCH of 20 investment funds from a mix of new incorporations and re-domiciliations have adopted the new Variable Capital Companies (VCC) structure, as Singapore upped its fund management game and launched the VCC framework.

ONECONNECT, the fintech associate of China's Ping An Group, decided not to apply for a digital banking licence in Singapore after exploring the prospects, its chief executive for Asia-Pacific and the United Arab Emirates, Tan Bin Ru, told The Business Times.