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Singapore’s central bank has said it is again looking at cryptocurrency regulation, appearing to amend previous comments about a hands-off approach, Reutersreported Thursday, March 1. Part of a speech quoted by various publications Thursday saw the ... ( read original story ...)

Sung worked as an RM in DBS’s mass-affluent Treasures arm – mainly covering Malaysia and Thailand from Singapore – during his first six and a half years at the firm, and only joined the private bank in 2015. As we reported in August, firms such as ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Singapore are in a fierce battle. The stakes? Becoming Asia’s most important financial center. One is taking the lead, but its the engines that drive each economy that will determine which stock market will emerge victorious. Asia is a ... ( read original story ...)

Backed by Chinese entrepreneur Liu Dianbo, Singaporean based healthcare company Luye Medical Group is set to launch its Singapore IPO, with plans to raise up to $500mn, Bloomberg has reported. The IPO would be one of the most significant healthcare focused ... ( read original story ...)

Amongst the three, OCBC had the best return on equity. The trio of banks in Singapore – DBS Group Holdings Ltd (SGX: D05), Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (SGX: O39) and United Overseas Bank Ltd (SGX: U11) – make up slightly more than 40% ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s drive to encourage employers to hire more locals is generally a good thing, but in investment banking it’s having some unwanted consequences. https://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/301800/indian-techie-singapore-employment-pass/ As we all ... ( read original story ...)

The Malaysia-Singapore stock market linking proposal is set to benefit retail investors, in particular, says DBS Group Research. “It has the potential to increase securities revenue for the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and generate interest, particularly ... ( read original story ...)

The IPO would follow last year’s listing of Warburg Pincus-backed Vincom Retail JSC VRE.HM, Vietnam’s biggest shopping mall operator and also a unit of Vingroup, which raised roughly $700 million. The participation of Singapore sovereign wealth fund ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Conglomerate Vingroup JSC , Vietnam's biggest property developer, has picked four foreign banks to work on a planned IPO of its residential property unit that could raise about $1 billion, sources familiar with the matter said. Vingroup has ... ( read original story ...)

Here’s how I managed it. https://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/309392/smu-msc-in-applied-finance-sc/ Kathy Zhou stood out from her peers when she joined the analyst training programme at an investment bank in Singapore in 2016. Most of the new ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Post Limited (SGX: S08) or SingPost is a mail and logistics company, organised into three major segments of Mail/Postal, Logistics, and Retail & eCommerce. Since the beginning of the year, the company’s stock price surged by 14%. In this ... ( read original story ...)

Do you recall our article on how to make a will in Singapore? We had said that a will must be committed to writing but in the current digital era, do you think electronic or online wills could be given the same recognition as that of a conventional will? ( read original story ...)