Markets

OCBC Bank has provided a green loan of 115 billion South Korean won (S$132.6 million) to M&G Real Estate Asia to refinance an investment in Northgate, a green building in Seoul's central business district, with the bank as the sole lender and green adviser.

Japan's core consumer prices were stubbornly unchanged in July, dashing hopes for a modest rise as the coronavirus pandemic hit household demand and revived fears of a national plunge back into deflation.

Asian equities were poised to rise on Friday after a tech-driven rally on Wall Street in which the Nasdaq hit a record high despite downbeat data that affirmed the Fed's dour outlook on U.S. economic recovery.

In an unprecedented case, a former chief security officer for Uber Technologies was criminally charged on Thursday with trying to cover up a 2016 hacking that exposed personal information of about 57 million of the ride-hailing company's customers and drivers.

In a shift that some experts believe exacerbates already deep inequalities in the U.S. economy, more Americans than ever are working from home, and many are likely to continue to do so even after the health threat from COVID-19 has abated.

The timing of the tax has created fresh challenges as the US and India work towards a limited bilateral trade deal before the impending US Presidential Elections, says Dr Amitendu Palit.

SINGAPORE: After seeing its sales revenue plummet by 40 per cent in 2019 due to protracted international trade tensions, Certact Engineering was bracing for even more pain this year with the COVID-19 pandemic.  But a shift to focus more on the niche segment of plastic engineering has since worked...

LOCAL fintech Advance.AI has seen rising demand from younger shoppers in taking up instalment plans for online retail spending - a service it is selling to retailers now forced by the pandemic-linked measures to digitalise their sales.

SINGAPOREAN R Shanmugaratnam faces two more charges over falsifying letters that misrepresented balances held by his company's escrow accounts as at March 31, 2016.

SOME unsavoury financial advisers have tried to upsell critical illness (CI) plans on exaggerated claims that more illnesses are due to be harder to claim - a move that has prompted the regulator to step in to put a stop to it.