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<p>SINGAPORE's quest to become a global green finance hub just got a US$2 billion speed boost with the launch of an investment programme to support the growth of climate-friendly projects.</p>

<p>THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), JPMorgan and Temasek have developed a blockchain-based prototype that enables payments to be made in different currencies on the same network.</p>

<p>DBS Bank is working with Singapore's public healthcare system to move all public hospitals, specialty centres and polyclinics onto the nation's unified payment code, Singapore Quick Response Code (SGQR), by the end of next year.</p>

<p>DBS and OCBC Bank are tying up with tech giant Google.</p>

<p>BUSINESS sans Borders (BSB), a cross-border digital trade platform experiment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), will be ramped up in the first half of next year, having completed its proof-of-concept (POC) stage, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).</p> ...

<p>SOUTH-EAST Asia's largest lender DBS will not be able to meet its 2019 net interest margin (NIM) growth forecast that it had guided for earlier, as the three interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve this year took the bank by surprise.</p>

<p>DENNIS Tan, who oversees OCBC Bank's consumer financial services Singapore, is leaving the bank.</p>

Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Monday that it would honour California's privacy law, known as CCPA, throughout the United States.

WASHINGTON: Southwest Airlines Co said on Monday (Nov 11) it will complete inspections on 38 737 airplanes it acquired from foreign air carriers by Jan 31 that may not meet all US aviation safety requirements. The planes are part of 88 pre-owned Boeing 737 aircraft Southwest bought between 2013 ...

Alphabet Inc's Google is teaming up with a health-care company on a secret project to collect personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.