Cyber experts, blockchain gurus in short supply in city-state Tech startups battle fiercely to attract software engineers Singapore’s goal of becoming a high-tech financial hub are running into real-world problems of labor supply and demand. Technology ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Fintech Ambitions Bump Up Against Immigration Curbs
(Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s goal of becoming a high-tech financial hub are running into real-world problems of labor supply and demand. Technology startups in many countries are fighting to attract skilled workers like software engineers. Yet in the tiny ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s new online grocer wants to prove sustainability and e-commerce can go hand in hand
Though presently constituting less than 1 per cent of Singapore’s estimated grocery market, the online grocery business is expected to grow 10.7 per cent annually, indicating huge market potential. Local e-commerce grocery start-ups, including Honestbee ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Business Review awards Bolloré Logistics and L’Oréal Singapore
In partnership, Bolloré Logistics and L’Oréal Singapore, won the recent award for their co-designed innovative trucking solution deployed in Asia-Pacific. Bolloré Logistics, a brand of Bolloré Transport & Logistics, a global leader in supply chain ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered takes on new team head in Singapore hiring drive
Standard Chartered has made another senior hire in Singapore as part of its digital-banking expansion. Burak Ceviz joined Stan Chart earlier this month from Turkey’s Odeabank as head of digital servicing, according to his public profile. Ceviz’s moves ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore sets a high bar for mobile broadband in OpenSignal’s latest report
In our first State of Mobile Networks report for Singapore, we examined the mobile broadband experience offered by the city-state’s three major operators, and the LTE speeds we recorded were quite impressive. One operator, StarHub, averaged LTE download ... ( read original story ...)
State of Mobile Networks: Singapore (May 2018)
It provided a 4G signal to our testers 86.4% of the time. Rarely do we find an LTE network with sub-30-millisecond latency, which is the measure of a network's response time, but in Singapore's case we found two: M1 and Singtel. M1 won our 4G latency award ... ( read original story ...)
Finance Twitter says Dr M will give LKY son the run for the money!
With 90% of the railroad project to be done in Malaysia, and most of the expenditure falling on the Malaysian government, was there really a need for Singapore to be involved? The Finance Twitter site said, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is moving for the kill as ... ( read original story ...)
Genting Singapore may be the major victim of the dropped HSR project
Will Genting Singapore be the major victim of the the Malaysian Government’s decision to scrap the high-speed rail project between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur? The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Muhammad had yesterday in no uncertain terms ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Exchange Delays New India Futures After Lawsuit
Singapore Exchange Ltd. said it will delay the start of its new Indian stock futures contracts, as a court dispute in Mumbai heads to arbitration. SGX, which is battling with National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. over Indian derivatives in the city-state ... ( read original story ...)
Mitsubishi, MUFG Conduct Successful Pilot Payment With Major Thai Bank’s Blockchain
The Mitsubishi Group has successfully completed a pilot sending money from Thailand to Singapore using Thai Krungsri bank’s blockchain tech. The pilot, conducted in the Bank of Thailand’s (BOT) regulatory sandbox, was executed by Japan’s Mitsubishi ... ( read original story ...)
TH Group expects IPO in Singapore within next two years
TH Group may one-up Vietjet and VNG by becoming the first Vietnamese firm to have its stock listed on an overseas stock exchange. However, the IPO is planned for 2020, which leaves a lot of space for action for the other firms. The first phase of TH Group ... ( read original story ...)
8 countries show the impact of HSR on property prices
Now that Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has confirmed it would pull out of the KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project, it’s likely that homeowners and property buyers the Jurong region might be feeling what Spiderman felt at the end of ... ( read original story ...)
How are Singaporeans using their first property as an investment?
Unfortunately, property prices are in a slump at the time ... Wrong. The rate of inflation in Singapore is around three per cent per annum, and your investment has not kept up with that. And this is after you've put up with various inconveniences for ... ( read original story ...)
Frasers Property acquires owner of new logistics warehouse in Netherlands for €25m
SINGAPORE - Frasers Property on Friday (May 25) said it has acquired a new freehold logistics warehouse in the Netherlands. Its indirect subsidiary Frasers Property Investments (Europe) BV entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Acacia BV and ... ( read original story ...)
Why Donald Trump should come to Singapore anyway
It seemed that, like the property market here, what hothead Kim needed wasn’t dialogue but some serious cooling measures. In Singapore, particularly in Mandarin Gardens, we know how hard it is to pull off something successfully. There’s this thing ... ( read original story ...)