Chinese brands are making major inroads in the Southeast Asian city-state as they shed their image as cheap knockoffs.
Singapore Telecommunications logs 14% rise in first-quarter profit
Singapore Telecommunications reported a 14% rise in first-quarter underlying profit on Wednesday, driven by strong performance from Australian unit Optus and contributions from regional associates ...
Who is buying Singapore’s 3rd largest telecom provider M1 in $780M deal?
Singapore’s Simba Telecom is spending SGD1 billion (US$780 million) to acquire a majority stake in M1, the third largest telecom provider in the country.
Global-City Singapore: SG60 And Beyond
Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong shed light on challenges behind US tariff negotiations and urged companies to continue investing in talent, AI technology to adapt to a changing world.
Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges
South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two fraud charges arising from the $40 billion collapse of a cryptocurrency ecosystem that had promised investors their money was ...
SG60: The future of Singapore’s economy
Singapore now enters a critical phase of economic restructuring, driven by rapid advances in digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI). The advent of generative AI, process automation and ...
SG60: The development of Singapore’s corporate and securities law over the last 6 decades
SINGAPORE’S corporate law framework has undergone remarkable transformation over the past 60 years, evolving from a colonial-era system into a globally respected, business-friendly and sophisticated ...
SG60: From surge to stability – a timeline of Singapore’s property market cooling measures, 1995 to 2025
By Q4 2008, the country was in recession, dragged down by the global financial crisis. Over the course of the year, the combined market capitalisation of Singapore-listed equities shed half its value, ... ( read original story ...)
Same mission, new millennium
New economy businesses are another growth area. HSBC launched a US$150 million venture debt offering in Singapore in 2024 to help high-growth companies scale, alongside a US$1 billion Asean Growth ...
Asia’s financial super-connector
AS TRADE routes shift and geopolitical tensions reshape global wealth flows, Standard Chartered is positioning itself as Asia’s financial super-connector – with Singapore at the heart of this strategy ...
OCBC Group: Greater than the sum of its parts
MORE than nine decades after three struggling banks merged for survival in the Great Depression, OCBC Group has honed the art of being greater than the sum of its parts. This, and its long-standing ...
SG60: Many hands behind Singapore’s success story
As we celebrate SG60, it is encouraging to look back at how Singapore emerged from that “winter”, and is now recognised as one of the world’s most innovative countries, a financial powerhouse and ...
UOB aims to further grow and serve in Singapore and Asean
Other efforts include the UOB FutureGen Scholarship Programme that will provide pre-tertiary scholarships to students from the region to study in Singapore. The bank is also partnering with a leading ...
Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges in $40 billion crypto collapse
Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud ...
Citi: Global bank, anchored in Singapore
AS SINGAPORE celebrates its 60th year of independence, Citi continues to play a vital role in the city-state’s remarkable journey as a global financial centre. With a presence dating back to 1902, ...
DBS: A purpose-driven and innovation-led bank for Asia
Unlike its regional peers, DBS has a unique footprint across Asia’s three key growth engines: Southeast Asia, South Asia and North Asia. The bank’s six core markets – Singapore, Hong Kong, China, ...