The Singapore stock market has moved lower in back-to-back trading days, surrendering almost 50 points or 1.5 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,390-point plateau and it may take further damage again on Thursday. ( read original story ...)
Value of IPOs by Singapore issuers up 78% in first half of 2018
SINGAPORE - The overall number of initial public offerings (IPOs) - domestic and cross-border - by Singapore issuers was up in the first six months of this year, with 12 listings raising US$459 million or 78 per cent more year on year, a report said. ( read original story ...)
Live more, Bank less: DBS, now 50, wants to (again) disrupt how S’poreans approach banking
At that time, its primary function was to finance Singapore’s industrialisation and urban development. And according to Piyush, DBS was a disruptor in the banking industry when they first began. Photo of DBS building (1980s), from NAS. Since 1968 ... ( read original story ...)
The seven best jobs at HSBC in Hong Kong, according to John Flint
HSBC’s Private Bank and Retail Banking and Wealth Management unit is primed for expansion, especially in Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China, markets where the firm already has an “established presence”. While most of the growth will be in wealth ... ( read original story ...)
Wolters Kluwer Survey Shows Singapore’s Bankers Concerned Over MAS 610
The survey asked more than 50 compliance, risk, finance and IT professionals at more than 25 banks in Singapore for their views on key challenges they face. The scope of new proposals in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s overhaul of the MAS 610 ... ( read original story ...)
FWD Insurance partners DBS to launch e-claims payments via PayNow
PayNow is an electronic fund transfer service available to customers of any of the seven participating banks: Citibank Singapore, DBS/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and United Overseas Bank. To receive payments via PayNow, FWD ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore IPOs lag Asian peers as homegrown companies rush to list abroad
Cross-border listings ballooned 300% in value compared to domestic flotations which surged 64%. With a growing number of Singapore companies choosing to list abroad, the number of cross-border listings ballooned 300% in terms of volume and 166% in terms of ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Market Expected To Remain Rangebound
The Singapore stock market has alternated between positive and negative finishes through the last five trading days since the end of the two-day winning streak in which it had gathered more than 55 points or 1.6 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests ... ( read original story ...)
Ravi Liyanage wins HSBC 5-Club Stableford Golf Tournament 2018
HSBC is also the title sponsor of The Open in UK, HSBC WGC Abu Dhabi and WGC Shanghai and HSBC Women’s World Championships in Singapore. HSBC’s Premier customers can look forward to another exciting day of Golf at the upcoming HSBC Premier Golf ... ( read original story ...)
CapitaLand Limited’s Stock Price Is Close To A 52-Week Low Now: Is It Actually Cheap?
CapitaLand Limited (SGX: C31) is a real estate developer and owner and is one of the largest companies in Singapore’s stock market. Its diversified global real estate portfolio includes integrated developments, shopping malls, serviced residences ... ( read original story ...)
DBS Is Making Banking Effortless Because Really, “Where Got Time?”
But how does a bank that serves a few million customers and that’s almost as old as Singapore go ‘invisible’? At the launch of “Live more, Bank less” / Image Credit: DBS Its new ethos, “Live more, Bank less”, is the answer. Just like how ... ( read original story ...)
Stock Market Today: Wall Street Ekes Out Gains Ahead Of Singapore Summit
NEW YORK - All three major U.S. stock indexes closed slightly higher on Monday as investors eyed the looming United States-North Korea summit on Tuesday in Singapore while shrugging off the weekend’s factious meeting of the Group of Seven nations. ( read original story ...)
Kim Jong Un went sightseeing in Singapore the night before Trump summit
He stood on the 56th-floor's rooftop “Sky Park” looking over the city, with its skyscrapers topped by illuminated Citibank and HSBC signs. Here’s Kim Jong Un at the top of Marina Bay Sands, the iconic Singapore hotel owned by Sheldon Adelson. ( read original story ...)
Awards night brings down curtain on thrilling HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series
The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2018 Awards in Paris brought ... beating Fijian Alosio Naduva’s last-gasp winning try against Australia in the Singapore Cup final and Matias Osadczuk’s break and calm head to send Renzo Barbier over for the winning ... ( read original story ...)
Businesses in Singapore hope to cash in on Trump burgers, Kim tacos
“The media attention highlights the value the rest of the world places on Singapore, like security, peace and neutrality,” he told Yahoo Finance. “It provides an advertisement for a tourism boost and further foreign investment.” Krystal Hu is a ... ( read original story ...)
Stock market inches higher ahead of Trump-Kim summit
attended a lunch with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore on Monday. U.S. stock-market indexes were trading tentatively higher in early trade Monday, ahead of a highly anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean ... ( read original story ...)