Category: FINANCE

Shopping has overtaken gambling as the biggest earner in Singapore’s tourism industry for the first time since 2012, surging 44 percent in the six months through June from a year ago, official data show. It is most likely thanks to first-time Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

For its 13th edition, the Singapore Fringe Festival (January 5 -14) has chosen the theme of "Art & Skin", a "creative exploration and dialogue into matters of identity, beauty, intimacy, sensitivity, pleasure, pain and shame," the last time the festival ... ( read original story ...)

UOB is the first bank in Singapore to enable customers to use their mobile phone as their security token. UOB Mighty Secure ensures the necessary additional layer of security traditionally provided by physical tokens for conducting certain banking ... ( read original story ...)

Denes Ban said: “We are excited to be operating in Singapore, which is fast becoming a leading global fintech center. We look forward to strengthening our winning team of UOB and the Sassoon family by adding new Singapore partners, investors, and ... ( read original story ...)

Together with DBS/POSB’s network, the bank now has over 2,400 withdrawal touchpoints in Singapore. Introduced in 2013, POSB Cash-Point is a complimentary service that allows customers to withdraw up to SGD200 (in multiples of SGD10) with any item ... ( read original story ...)

Malaysian minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan was responding to demands by the opposition coalition that the government should be open about the income from the project and the cost sharing with Singapore. "I want to emphasise that, the Government has spent a ... ( read original story ...)

We will monitor engagement and feedback, improve in real-time and then expand to more clients and markets.” For the past few months, Citibank Singapore has been focusing their credit card efforts on mobile e-wallet payments via the Android platform. ( read original story ...)