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Singapore, My Country is a useful documentation of not just ... A few years ago, there was an effort to do away with POSB’s ATMs because of the high cost of maintaining them. The protests were loud and that move was scuppered. Unfortunately, the book ... ( read original story ...)

In a fast-paced nation such as Singapore, a sufficient emergency fund is worth at ... Qualify for SSB by opening a bank account with DBS, POSB, UOB, or OCBC. Also, you need to have an individual CDP Securities account linked to any of your bank accounts ... ( read original story ...)

Singsaver.com.sg, Singapore's go-to personal finance comparison platform ... If you're a Jadeite member armed with a DBS or POSB credit or debit card, we bear more good news: if you do the eight-course weekend brunch, a Prestige Pipa Duck with fermented ... ( read original story ...)

This year, Mandarin Orchard Singapore has put together a dizzying array of sweet ... a 15% discount when you pay by credit cards (20% if you’re using Citibank or DBS/POSB). From 15 December onwards, the discounts drop to 10% and 15% respectively. ( read original story ...)

OCBC was endorsed by Spring Singapore, the country's national quality award organising committee. More work lies ahead. OCBC has intensified its digital push in the last six months, which has boosted its top line. Sales of unit trusts rose at around the ... ( read original story ...)

Progress on the GST reform in India is "encouraging", the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) said on Monday and noted that most services will be pegged at 18 %, higher than at present. The GST Council last week announced a tiered structure 5 % tax on mass ... ( read original story ...)

Standard Chartered Bank, IBM, Insead, Thomson Reuters and Microsoft are backing a fintech school at New York-based Byte Academy's first international venture, in Singapore. The firms have come together to form a fintech skills charter that will guide Byte ... ( read original story ...)

"Shrinking China's trade loans from mor attractive onshore borrowing rates would result i a retreat of capital back into Singapore or banks would have to find new sources of growth to fill the vacuum. This will affect DBS and OCBC more so than UOB as UOB ... ( read original story ...)

The seven leading banks in Singapore (HSBC, DBS, OCBC, UOB, Citibank, Maybank and Standard Chartered) make up a large part of FAST transactions and are working closely with ABS and BCS to bring this new system to life. ABS also intends to make a unified ... ( read original story ...)

We've previously written on robo-advisory services extensively and also on how it is affecting jobs in Singapore. But since Singaporeans are among the world’s wealthiest people with 10.7% of the country’s households in the millionaire category ... ( read original story ...)

We love nothing more than a great excuse to splurge on a feast at the hottest new tables in town and with tantalising discounts from Eazy Gourmet and HSBC Credit Cards; eating out is now more affordable than ever! This month, they are offering foodies some ... ( read original story ...)

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Kuah, 44, was working for Kanetsu Singapore when she committed forgery between Dec ... To siphon the money from Kanetsu's Citibank accounts, she needed their signatures, and to get that, she used falsified funds transfer forms, using customers of the ... ( read original story ...)

A French prosecutor has called for British banking giant HSBC to stand trial for enabling French clients to hide more than 180 billion euros from the taxman, a source close to the probe said Thursday. The recommendation also names the former chief ... ( read original story ...)

HSBC and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research ... Hong Kong currently ranks only fifth as a global hub for fintech, behind London, Singapore, New York and Silicon Valley. Deloitte attributed Singapore’s recent rise to second place ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong/ Singapore: Standard Chartered Plc is over the worst of its challenges in India that led to loan writedowns and dragged on profit, according to the lender’s South Asia head. The London-based bank is now focusing on expanding its consumer and ... ( read original story ...)