SINGAPORE: OCBC Bank on Monday (Aug 28) launched a mobile keyboard for Android device users, allowing them to make electronic payments to another person regardless of what app they are on. The custom keyboard lets consumers pay from apps they are ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC Keyboard lets users send money without leaving their chat, e-mail apps
SINGAPORE - OCBC mobile banking customers can now type into any messaging app - be it WhatsApp, Facebook, Gmail or Instagram - to initiate a funds transfer to anyone's mobile number. This is possible with the roll out of OCBC Keyboard, which works within ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC ‘back in growth mode’ in Singapore
British bank HSBC is now "back in growth mode" in Singapore after investing heavily in turning around revenue and profitability, said a top executive. Despite a fiercely competitive retail market, the bank has high hopes for its business here, said Mr ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC has high hopes for its business here
British bank HSBC is now "back in growth mode" in Singapore after investing heavily in turning around revenue and profitability, said a top executive. Despite a fiercely competitive retail market, the bank has high hopes for its business here, said Mr ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore financial sector conducts physical and cyber attack simulation to test business continuity
finance companies, insurers, asset management firms, securities and brokerage firms, financial market infrastructures, industry associations, the Singapore Exchange as well as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) participating in the Exercise. ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Top 5 Dividend-Paying Giants
The Singapore stock market is home to a large number of giant companies. The exchange boasts 98 businesses in Singapore with market capitalisations above $1 billion. These sizable companies come from a range of industries and a substantial number of them ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Shares for the Week: 12 Blue-Chip Stocks Beat the Market
The Singapore market, as represented by the Straits Times Index (SGX ... Get a FREE weekly dose of our Foolish investing insights when you subscribe to David Kuo's "Take Stock" email bulletin today. And better yet -- you'll also get instant access ... ( read original story ...)
Why start-ups like to set up in Singapore but list in Hong Kong
The firm was last month given the green light to launch a global wealth management platform by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Still, the overall Hong Kong IPO market is more robust. It has raised four times more funds than Singapore so far this year ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: IPOS chief executive elected as chairman of WIPO SCCR
In May 2017 Daren Tang, the chief executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), became the first Singaporean representative to assume the chairmanship of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on ... ( read original story ...)
You have a 50% chance of failing in this Singapore banking job
“When UBS took on about 100 of them from Citi, HSBC and the like in China about three years ago only about 35 were successful,” says a Singapore headhunter who asked not to be named. “But the salaries of the 65 others were low anyway and the bank ... ( read original story ...)
Why Citibank pulled the plug on sinking SAA
There are rumours that the former Thai leader may have fled to neighbouring Cambodia, while newspaper reports say she may have later gone to Singapore or Dubai Among ... of bankrupt state-owned airline SAA with Citibank being the second bank to refuse ... ( read original story ...)
POSB teaches kids in Singapore to spend wisely
Wearable technology helps them track their savings. POSB SmartBuddy Launch ceremony. Credit: POSB Bank. POSB is helping Singapore kids to save and spend wisely through the launch of the POSB Smart Buddy programme. Launched in 19 primary schools, this ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore-based AI company Taiger closes S$8 Mil Series A Funding
Today’s announcement a boon to Singapore’s efforts to become a leader in AI ... Taiger to support the next phase of their exciting journey.” Here at Fintech Finance, we work with renowned executives in the industry to provide key decision-makers ... ( read original story ...)
How the “Ceylon” Tamils From Sri Lanka Contributed to Singapore Over The Years
This may have been due to overt discriminations as when I came to Singapore, virtually as a refugee from the communal violence in Sri Lanka in 1983, and applied for Citibank, I was denied a position as the Senior local management did not want to recruit a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore to encourage use of electronic payments
Run by Singapore's Association of Banks, it is available to customers of Citibank Singapore, DBS Bank/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, and United Overseas Bank. There are plans to make QR codes available for PayNow, and to make the ... ( read original story ...)
Banks Shake Singapore Rate-Rigging Claims, For Now
FrontPoint Asian Event Driven Fund and Sonterra Capital Master Fund sued banks like Citibank NA, Bank of America NA, Deutsche Bank AG and others, alleging they manipulated the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR) and the Singapore Swap... To view the ... ( read original story ...)