Credit: UOB.com.sg UOB Singapore has launched Mighty Secure, a digital security feature which allows users to use their mobile phone as a security token for safe authentication while using the UOB Mighty app. According to the bank, more than 9,000 UOB ... ( read original story ...)
Economists slash Singapore GDP, exports growth expectations further
Economists have slashed their forecast for the growth of Singapore economy in 2016 and 2017 in line with the weak global fundamentals and a sustained downward shift in GDP and export expansion in the trade-reliant country. According to the latest survey by ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia, Singapore Sign Pact to Build High-Speed Railway
Malaysia and Singapore signed an agreement Tuesday to build a high-speed ... The rail line will "transform the way we interact, socialize and do businesses," Lee said at a news conference. "It is a complex project and we are making long-term commitments ... ( read original story ...)
New global electronics connections
SINGAPORE’S largest electronics incubator with links to thousands of local members and companies is looking to invest in South Australia’s growing industry after meeting with industry members at the World Electronics Forum. The agreement between ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore unemployment rises 2.1% as total jobs contract in Q3
It was in 1Q15 when employment last suffered contraction. Singapore unemployment rate has seen a 0.1 percentage point increase to 2.1% in September, as total employment contracted for the first time since the 1Q15, slumping by 2,700 jobs. According to the ... ( read original story ...)
Willas Array Electronics : Overseas Regulatory Announcement – Other
Please refer to the following pages for the document which has been published by Willas-Array Electronics (Holdings) Limited (the "Company") on the website of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited on December 13, 2016. As at the date of this ... ( read original story ...)
Bloomberg: Singapore’s Tourists Abandon Casinos For Shopping Malls
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 ...)
Singapore's Fringe Festival to explore "Art & Skin"
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 ...)
Singapore business confidence slumps
The quarterly Business Optimism Index (BOI) fell to negative 1.22 percentage points for the first quarter of next year from plus 2.87 percentage points in the fourth quarter of this year, the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau (SCCB), which compiled the ... ( read original story ...)
UOB Turns Smartphone Into a Digital Security Token For Consumers
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 ...)
Singapore Nov exports seen falling y/y for 3rd month on slack global demand
Singapore's exports in November are expected to have fallen for a third straight month, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, reinforcing the headwinds buffeting the trade-reliant economy in the face of sluggish global demand. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX ... ( read original story ...)
OurCrowd an Equity Crowdfunding Opens Singapore Office and Appoints new MD
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 ...)
Singapore leaders send condolences over twin blasts in Istanbul
“My heartfelt sympathies go out to the victims and their families.” Singapore’s MFA has said it "strongly condemns" the acts of terror in Istanbul, and advised Singaporeans in Turkey to exercise vigilance and monitor local news. ( read original story ...)
DBS extends cashpoint footprint
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 ...)
Singapore’s ‘city brain’ project is groundbreaking — but what about privacy? (with video)
Ultimately, Singapore will create a system to "analyze that data and create actionable steps," according to Balakrishnan's vision, which he described in a keynote earlier this year at a technology conference called InnovFest unBound. Here's a look at some ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore-Malaysia high speed rail: China ahead in race for contract as Japan pushes hard
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 ...)