ANZ migration to DBS on track for full completion by early 2018

ANZ's wealth management and retail banking business in Singapore was migrated across to DBS Bank over the weekend, said the Singapore lender yesterday. The process involved transferring ANZ customer databases to DBS while staff moved their belongings to ... ( read original story ...)

Expensive new recruits push up pay at Singapore banks

Singapore’s three local banks, led by OCBC, are becoming better paymasters. http://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/291440/asian-bankers-dont-fear-robots/ Singapore’s three local banks, led by OCBC, are becoming better paymasters as more wealth ... ( read original story ...)

Paris Aims to Overtake Frankfurt in Race for Brexit Bank Jobs

HSBC, which has a French retail bank ... London tops the list, followed by New York and Singapore. “Many banks, many investors, should be aware that France is changing,” Le Maire said, citing Paris Saint Germain’s world record signing of Brazilian ... ( read original story ...)

Asean to give infrastructure a big push

Asean investors have become the largest investors in their own region, three times more than from Chinese investors, said Tony Cripps, chief executive officer of HSBC Singapore. According to Asean Investment Report 2016, Asean remained a major destination ... ( read original story ...)

From Worst to Best: A Shipbuilder’s Fortunes Turn Around

By Krystal Chia and Livia Yap (Bloomberg) — A recovery in demand for new bulk carriers has helped Singapore’s worst-performing stock ... according to a report by HSBC Global Research. It reported $823 million last year, according to a company statement. ( read original story ...)

The new trade order

Tony Cripps, the CEO of HSBC in Singapore, said Asean was the world's fourth-largest trade bloc and about 25% of its trade activity was within the connected countries of the 10-member bloc, so "the fundamentals are incredibly powerful", especially with the ... ( read original story ...)

HNA’s Singapore REIT Partner Is Said to Explore Reducing Ties

announced in March it planned to buy at least a 35 percent stake in a REIT that will list in Singapore, as well as 75 percent of a trust management company formed with AEP. The IPO was slated to raise more than $400 million, people with knowledge of the ... ( read original story ...)

3 Things to Know about Singapore’s Stock Market Barometer

If you wish to know how the Singapore stock market is performing, you would have to turn your attention to the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), or STI for short. As mentioned earlier, banks make up 36.52% of the index. The next biggest sector is real ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong, Singapore and China get tough on tax havens

Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati ... In June, Indonesia signed multilateral and bilateral authority agreements with Singapore and Hong Kong, the go-to places for wealthy Indonesians to stash their money. “Globalisation has transformed ... ( read original story ...)