SINGAPORE: Singapore Exchange's (SGX) regulatory unit is looking into imposing stricter regulations for listed retail bonds, including tightening the admission criteria, a move that follows a high profile default by water treatment company Hyflux. In a statement on Thursday (Jan 2), Singapore ...
SINGAPORE: Singapore gaming firm Razer said on Thursday (Jan 2) that it is leading a consortium of companies that has applied for a digital full banking licence in Singapore, joining the race to shake up the city's financial sector. Razer's fintech business will have a 60 per cent stake in...
BEIJING: China's factory activity expanded at a slower clip in December, pulling back from a three-year high the previous month as new orders softened, a private survey showed on Thursday (Jan 2). But production continued to grow at a solid pace and business confidence shot up amid thawing trade ......
Oil prices rose on the first trading day of 2020 as warming trade relations between the United States and China eased demand concerns, and rising tensions in the Middle East raised worries about supply.
REUTERS: Buy-now-pay-later company Sezzle Inc said on Thursday a U.S. government department had announced its intention to reject the company's application for a lending licence in the state of California. The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO), which oversees and regulates ...
Asian shares kicked off the new decade higher on Thursday, after global stocks ended the previous one at record highs, and buoyed by Chinese markets after Beijing eased monetary policy to support slowing growth.
China's top steelmaking city of Tangshan, in the country's northern province of Hebei, on Thursday issued an orange alert for pollution due to deteriorating weather conditions, according to a local government notice.
SINGAPORE: The rise of private property prices in Singapore slowed in 2019 to 2.5 per cent, compared with the 7.9 per cent increase in 2018, according to official flash estimates released on Thursday (Jan 2). In the fourth quarter of last year, the private residential property index inched up...
SINGAPORE: Prices of resale flats remained unchanged for the whole of 2019, after inching up 0.4 per cent in the last quarter of the year, official flash estimates showed. The resale price index in the October to December period is estimated to have climbed to 131.4 from 130.9 in...
A CONSORTIUM including Razer Fintech and supermarket operator Sheng Siong Holdings has submitted an application for a digital full-bank licence in Singapore, focusing on the "underserved youth and millennials segment" for the bid, gaming lifestyle brand Razer Inc said in a statement on Thursday.
