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HONG Kong financial services group AMTD Group has linked up with some prominent Singapore names as well as a familiar partner - Chinese tech giant Xiaomi Corp - to vie for a digital wholesale bank licence in Singapore, BT understands.

THE Singapore Business Federation (SBF) announced over the weekend that it will be making the leap into digital banking - an unusually bold move for a chamber known for its conservative approach to championing the interests of the business community.

PRUDENTIAL Vietnam Assurance, a subsidiary of mainboard-listed Prudential plc, will be offering its life insurance products to Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) customers.

HONG Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (HKEX) aims to boost its market connectivity and embrace technology to ensure Hong Kong's relevance as a connector between East and West.

NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks shrugged off early weakness and pushed higher on Monday (Jan 6) as investors weighed whether escalating US-Iran tensions would significantly affect the economy. Stocks opened the session lower, extending Friday's skittishness following the US killing of Qasem Soleimani ...

Qualcomm Inc on Monday announced a computing system for autonomous vehicles designed to handle everything from lane controls to full self-driving that it aims to have on the road by 2023.

Hewlett-Packard suffered "buyer's remorse" over its disastrous US$11 billion acquisition of Autonomy and was trying to pin the blame on UK entrepreneur Mike Lynch, London's High Court heard on Monday in the closing stages of a multi-billion dollar case.

An Alphabet company's vision for a "smart city" project in Toronto includes buildings made of timber that are five times the current limit, potentially steering the company into the challenges of timber innovation in Canada.

LONDON: European stock markets suffered through a tense session on Monday (Jan 6), with equities falling, oil rising and money piling into the safety of gold after the US assassination of a top Iranian general sparked fears of military escalation. Since a US drone strike killed Qasem Soleimani ......

From making cars talk using Alexa's voice to managing data from factories full of robots, Amazon.com Inc wants a big piece of the action in transportation, and next week at CES will unveil more about its strategy to achieve that goal than ever before.