Recent jitters over how Singapore will cope with the current myriad of economic challenges it faces, including Brexit, the slowdown in China and weakened global demand, have led to a cut in the economic growth forecast for the nation. The most recent ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore will test self-driving buses
Singapore is quickly becoming a hub for the testing of autonomous ... For the past two years, BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has been tracking the progress of the self-driving car space. As our reports have shown, the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's self-driving taxi has crashed
One of Singapore's self-driving taxis recently got in an accident ... For the past two years, BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has been tracking the progress of the self-driving car space. As our reports have shown ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore rig builder Keppel cuts jobs as profits slump
SINGAPORE: Singapore-based Keppel Corp announced on Thursday ... Keppel chief executive Loh Chin Hua said it had slashed its workforce at its offshore and marine business by "close to 8,000", or around 26 per cent, over the nine months to September. ( read original story ...)
Virgin America, Singapore Air are top airlines – again!
Virgin America flight attendants line a red carpet at Dallas Love Field on April 25, 2014. (Photo: Max Faulkner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram via AP) It seems as if the number of “world’s best airline” rankings has growing during the past decade. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Outfitting Buses With Self-Driving Sensors
For some people in Singapore, the situation may soon improve in a big way. The city-state's transportation regulator this week announced it is collaborating with the local Nanyang Technological University to begin developing and testing autonomous buses. ( read original story ...)
Singapore will put high-tech sensors on regular buses to make them driverless
A new bus trial launched in Singapore aims to outfit regular large buses with clever technology, so they can operate along Singapore's busy main roads eventually. SEE ALSO: Aussies want driverless cars for when they're tired, bored or drunk The Land ... ( read original story ...)
Nine clever ways to move from banking to fintech in Singapore
Bankers in Singapore scrambling to get into fintech, but most don’t make the cut. Here’s my advice for beating the competition. Banking recruitment in 2016 has turned out to be a bit of non-event in Singapore (I should know, I’m banking recruiter). ( read original story ...)
Singapore recession risk raises chance of policy easing
SINGAPORE The growing risk of a recession in Singapore has raised the prospects of an off-cycle easing in policy, although for now the consensus among economists is for the central bank to sit tight in the hope the economy sparks to life. Ten out of 15 ... ( read original story ...)
Here are six boring banking jobs that actually have big career prospects
Or is it? Many of the most in-demand banking jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong are actually rather on the dull side. But taking one of these “boring” roles could eventually lead to something better, say recruiters. 1. Internal audit Banks in Asia are ... ( read original story ...)
What you need to know about POSB’s monthly cashback “BANK AND EARN” programme
All customers have to do is carry on with their regular banking transactions. Jeremy Soo, Head of Consumer Banking Group Singapore, DBS Bank, says, “Currently, most of our customers are already conducting regular banking transactions with us and this ... ( read original story ...)
A penny stock dbs couldn’t save roils singapore’s oil hub, banks _ todayonline database acid
Data recovery after factory reset Yet, the near-liquidation of the penny-stock firm has set off tremors in Singapore’s banking and energy industries. The Singapore-based supplier to offshore oil and gas explorers, facing about US$50.5 million (S$68.1 ... ( read original story ...)
HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND MORE SAVINGS FOR NTUC MEMBERS TO CELEBRATE SINGAPORE S 50 TH BIRTHDAY
Visa Cards Singapore, 9 March 2015 OCBC Bank, NTUC FairPrice and NTUC Link have jointly announced a special birthday present for National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) members. To celebrate the 50 th anniversary of Singapore s independence, these members ... ( read original story ...)
NRB to bring $10 million to ease shortage of bills
Oct 21, 2016- Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has sent two officials to Singapore to bring $10 million in cash to replenish depleting stocks of dollar bills in the domestic market. Janak Bahadur Adhikari, executive director of NRB’s Banking Office, has been ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s $24 Billion Wipeout Eats Into Its Shipyard Base
“We’ll see more failures within the oil services sector,” said Song Seng Wun, regional economist with CIMB Private Banking in Singapore, in a telephone interview. “Stronger companies, like Keppel Corp. and Sembcorp Marine, will survive and take ... ( read original story ...)
Employee redundancy – what is the Singapore government doing about it?
The global financial crisis back then was the cause of such a drop ... The Action Plan Lim shares the same sentiments as other concerned citizens – Singapore’s bracing itself over the possibility of a bigger number of layoffs, especially in sectors ... ( read original story ...)