Month: October 2016

“Productivity is a vital component of growth especially for when labor contribution to growth is declining, especially in advanced economies such as Singapore,” said David Mann, chief economist for Asia at Standard Chartered Plc. “Singapore has been ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - OCBC banking customers can now speak to their Apple iPhone to activate a fund transfer. This is possible with the roll out of a new mobile banking feature that takes advantage of Apple's Siri virtual assistant. Fund transfers can also be ... ( read original story ...)

SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - DBS Group plans to buy Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's wealth and retail businesses in five Asian markets - part of a big private banking push for the Singapore lender and the first significant retreat from Asia for ANZ. ( read original story ...)

SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - DBS Group plans to buy Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's wealth and retail businesses in five Asian markets - part of a big private banking push for the Singapore lender and the first significant retreat from Asia for ANZ. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Singapore companies, highly exposed to slowing global trade and a lacklustre commodity market, face a financing scramble in 2017, as more than US$12 billion of their bonds falls due and banks grow wary of lending to the resources sector. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: DBS Group said on Monday (Oct 31) it plans to buy Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's (ANZ) wealth and retail businesses in five Asian markets - part of a big private banking push for the Singapore lender and the first significant retreat ... ( read original story ...)

DBS will pay S$110 million ($79 million) above the book value of the businesses, which operate in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia, the lender said in a stock-exchange statement. The deal will add S$23 billion of wealth assets to DBS’s ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - DBS Group Holdings, Singapore's biggest bank, reported on Monday (Oct 31) third-quarter profit that was little changed from a year ago as it announced it had agreed to buy Australia & New Zealand Banking Group's wealth and retail businesses in ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE -- DBS Group Holdings Ltd. Monday reported flat net profit and interest income in the third quarter amid rising bad loans due to the bank's exposure to companies that support the offshore oil industry. Net profit in the September quarter was 1.07 ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — Stresses among Singapore’s oil and gas companies are deepening, the head of South-east Asia’s second-largest lender said, signalling that more firms grappling with the slump in energy prices may face difficulties repaying their debts. ( read original story ...)

Yoko Ono at the NME Awards 2016. HSBC’s innovation team share the office with the rock and roll magazine. HSBC has opened a special office near the Tate Modern, in the same building as rock and roll magazine NME, to entice trendy developers to work for ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s property market has been in decline for the last three years. A number of factors have led to a prolonged slump in residential, commercial, and industrial real estate. Capital values are down and so are rentals. Before the fall in real estate ... ( read original story ...)

SHANGHAI (AP) — Hideki Matsuyama of Japan kept a clean card Saturday and made just enough birdies for a 4-under 68 to maintain his three-shot lead in the HSBC Champions. Matsuyama had made 19 birdies over the opening two rounds. He was even more ... ( read original story ...)