SINGAPORE - Prosecutors are asking for a jail sentence of 40 years for John Soh Chee Wen, the mastermind of Singapore’s biggest case of stock market manipulation that wiped out nearly $8 billion in ...
Irish DPM Varadkar leads mission to Singapore FinTech Festival, looks at clean energy collaboration next
SINGAPORE: Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday (Nov 3) reaffirmed his country’s commitment to Singapore’s fintech scene and identified green energy as another sector in which both ...
Singapore’s businesses face high risk and lower resilience: Beazley
According to a recent Risk & Resilience research report from Beazley, Singapore business is more worried about risk and less resilient than its global ...
Fear and uncertainty as Twitter employees in Singapore await fate
SINGAPORE - Twitter employees worldwide waited nervously on Friday to find out their fate through an e-mail as job cuts swept through the social media company. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Coinbase criticizes Singapore’s crypto regulations, urges city-state to embrace retail trading
Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong said that Singapore aims to be a Web3 hub, but disapproves of crypto trading. Coinbase recently secured approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to ...
Singapore Says Covid-19 Wave Subsiding, Rolls Out More Boosters
Singapore’s recent Covid-19 wave is subsiding, according to the government task force coordinating the city-state’s pandemic response. The Omicron XBB variant-driven wave, which averaged 8,000 cases a ...
Saxo and HSBC partner for fund transfers in Singapore
Saxo, a leading Fintech specialist that connects people to investment opportunities in global capital markets, has worked with HSBC to incorporate eGIRO and FAST Direct Debit Solution to support ...
Singapore Venture Funding Landscape 2022
In the latest report, DealStreetAsia and Enterprise Singapore examine the venture capital market activity of the first nine months of 2022. The period has been characterised by macroeconomic headwinds ...
Singapore’s three major banks expected to continue delivering double-digit profit growth in 2023, says Fitch
Singapore’s three major banks are expected to continue to deliver double-digit profit growth in 2023, as they are among the top beneficiaries in Asia-Pacific of higher interest rates, said Fitch ...
Singapore’s UOB to stop financing oil and gas projects
Singapore’s UOB will provide no new project financing for upstream oil and gas projects approved for development after 2022, following in the footsteps of an increasing number of European lenders. UOB ...
Singapore Retail Sales Growth Eases In September
Singapore's retail sales growth eased further in September, data from the Department of Statistics showed on Friday. Retail sales ...
Singapore Fintech Festival 2022: MAS MD Menon equates fintech transformation to Wu Xing
Day two of Singapore Fintech Festival kicked off with Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore on the global plenary stage highlighting that innovation and digitalisation ...
HashKey Capital Singapore Secures In-Principle Approval for the Capital Markets Services License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore
HashKey Capital Singapore, part of HashKey Capital, prides itself as a company which takes the next step in bringing digital assets closer to mainstream institutional adoption. " Singapore is quickly ...
Singapore Approves In-Principle License for Crypto Fund Manager Hashkey
Singapore's central bank has approved an in-principle license for a local unit of Hong Kong virtual asset manager Hashkey Group, the company said Friday. Once granted, the license will allow the ...
DBS shifts focus on retail, MSME loans
Singapore-headquartered multi-national bank DBS plans to diversify its lending portfolio in the country into gold loans, consumer finance and MSME loans, from its strong suit of corporate lending.
U.S. crude oil exports to Asia poised to hit record high
An oil tanker waits in line in the ocean outside the Port of Long Beach-Port of Los Angeles complex, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Los Angeles HOUSTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters ...