SINGAPORE May 31 Total bank lending in Singapore in April rose 7.0 percent from a year earlier, helped by increases in loans to financial institutions as well as housing and bridging loans, central bank data showed on Wednesday. Loans and advances by ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s gay pride rally attracts record sponsorship despite curbs
Organisers declined to say how much was raised last year. Days after last year's rally conservative Singapore's government announced that foreign firms would no longer be allowed to sponsor or participate in the rally. [nL4N19E24D] Foreigners have never ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines teams up with New Zealand craft brewer Garage Project
Singapore Airlines has teamed up with Wellington craft brewer Garage Project to put its beer on all flights to and from New Zealand. The airline says that in response to growing demand for craft beer in the air, it will serve Hapi Daze throughout its ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Exchange goes after tech start-ups to boost appeal as a listing destination
Singapore's sole stock exchange is gunning for more initial public offerings from technology firms as it seeks to alter perception that the city state is an attractive listing destination only for real estate investment trusts (REITs). To do that, it has ... ( read original story ...)
6 Brands In Town To Snag New Shoes At 15% Discounts With DBS/POSB Cards
In Singapore’s everlasting summer ... Just check out with your DBS/POSB card, and you’ll be eligible for the promotion. This post was brought to you by DBS. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Market May Give Up Support At 3,200 Points
(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market has fallen lower in three straight trading days, slipping more than 30 points or 1 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,205-point plateau, and it may extend its losses on ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore bourse partners with regulator to spur IPOs
SINGAPORE Singapore Exchange Ltd announced a partnership with the city-state's technology and media regulator, in a move that will facilitate accredited companies to list on the exchange and shore up the bourse's appeal as a listing destination. "Through ... ( read original story ...)
SGX partners with IMDA to spur IPOs
“Through this memorandum of intent (MOI), both parties aim to lower the access barriers for technology companies into the capital markets, catalyse more high-tech IPOs and increase Singapore’s attractiveness as a venue for capital raising,” SGX and ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore government and SGX launch their drive for more tech IPOs
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singaporean government’s main ICT and media industry regulator, have today signed a memorandum of intent (MoI) aimed at easing the path to IPO for local and foreign ... ( read original story ...)
Sanli seeks to raise $9.7m through IPO
At 22.5 cents a share, and with a post-IPO share capital of 268.7 million ... Hock Heng founded the company in 2006 with his colleagues from Dayen Environmental, a Singapore-listed water and waste treatment company now known as Moya Holdings Asia. ( read original story ...)
Singapore ranked most ‘digitally competitive’ in the world
SINGAPORE — The Republic is the most “digitally competitive” place in the world, based on an inaugural report measuring an economy’s ability to adopt and explore digital technologies leading to transformation in government practices, business ... ( read original story ...)
Three S’pore property developers to snap up with the impending market uptick
SINGAPORE (May 30): Maybank Kim Eng Research is turning positive on Singapore’s property developers with expectations of a potential rebound in property prices, even without further policy easing. UOL Group remains Maybank’s top “buy” pick with a ... ( read original story ...)
DBS cashless payments initiative reaches out to nearly 3,000 merchants
SINGAPORE - DBS has reached out to nearly 3000 cash-based merchants in Singapore within less than a month of the launch of its cashless payments drive called Snap, the bank said in a release on Tuesday. The Smart Nation Ambassador Programme or Snap was ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC, DBS tout QR code payments in push for cashless society
SINGAPORE: OCBC Bank on Tuesday (May 30) announced it has included QR code payments as part of its OCBC Pay Anyone app, which allows consumers to use this cashless mode of payment at more than 1,000 merchants from Jun 1. The participating merchants range ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC Bank launches cashless QR code payments with mobile app
SINGAPORE - OCBC Bank has launched its first stand-alone mobile payments app which makes QR code cashless payments available at close to 2,500 Nets terminals, the company said Tuesday. The new stand-alone OCBC Pay Anyone app brings together all OCBC Pay ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore fines Credit Suisse, UOB over 1MDB-linked dealings, wraps up review
SINGAPORE/ZURICH Singapore's central bank has fined Credit Suisse and United Overseas Bank (UOB) a total of S$1.6 million ($1.2 million) for breaching anti-money laundering rules in transactions related to Malaysia's scandal-ridden state fund 1MDB. ( read original story ...)