Mr Lim said: "With Asia at the cusp of a significant intergenerational wealth transfer, we are committed to being our clients' partner of choice as we help to grow, manage and protect their family's ... ( read original story ...)
DBS has just poached a new department head from Standard Chartered
Tan worked for Standard Chartered in Singapore between 2008 and 2013, latterly as a director in oil and gas corporate finance. The new head of DBS’s institutional banking group, Tan Su Shan ... ( read original story ...)
Record number of teams for SCC Soccer Sevens
The category features eight teams from corporations such as Citibank Singapore, Bank of China and Ernst & Young. “We actually have a wait list of corporate teams wanting to take part,” Amos Boon, ... ( read original story ...)
UOB plans for the future; targets 3-5 mil regional digital customers over 5 years
SINGAPORE (Mar 15): United Overseas Bank is targeting 3-5 million digital customers in five markets over the next five years. UOB is committed to maintaining dividend payout ratio at 50% if CET-1 CAR ... ( read original story ...)
Revamp of DBS Vickers a sign of things to come; can brokerages, remisiers maintain their relevance?
The same week that I was in KL, news broke in Singapore that DBS Group Holdings will transfer its retail equity trading business from DBS Vickers Securities to the bank. Predictably, it reignited old ... ( read original story ...)
Is the Market Overheated Now?
This ratio suggests that the Singapore stock market, in general, is still a fair distance away from the lofty prices of the pre-crisis period in 2007. Looking at the price-to-earnings multiple in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore issuers amongst those that will dominate IPO pipeline by 2030
The city ranks seventh in capital-raising activity. Singapore is ranked seventh amongst the countries that are projected to lead capital raising activites by 2030, according to a report from PwC. In a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore to continue to host new look HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series till 2023
Singapore will continue to host one leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series until 2023 after World Rugby announced a new look men’s and women’s semis which include at least six combined men’s and wo... ( read original story ...)
Citi kick starts a hiring drive for its new Singapore ‘hub’
Citi is not the only bank hiring FX developers, however, and the talent pool in this job function is already small in Singapore. JP Morgan, Standard Chartered and Commerzbank, for example ... ( read original story ...)
Why HSBC must now hire from Goldman, JPM and UBS in Hong Kong and Singapore
HSBC must poach from the powerhouses of Asian wealth management – UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Baer – if it’s to successfully build out its new ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) team in Asia, say ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered suffers Asia private banker exits, boosts Mideast staff: sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Standard Chartered PLC has seen the departure ... through booking centres in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, India, London and Jersey. The unit, however, has weighed on the ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC Premier – Benefits & Preferential Rates (2019)
OCBC Premier divides its customers into two tiers—regular OCBC Premier customers with deposits or investments of at least $200,000, and OCBC Premier Private Clients with deposits and/or investments of ... ( read original story ...)
Little Movement Expected For Singapore Stock Market
The Singapore stock market on Tuesday wrote a finish to the two-day losing streak in which it had fallen almost 40 points or 1.3 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,210-point p... ( read original story ...)
Singapore expected to be among top 10 listing destinations in 2030: PwC
Looking at the IPO pipeline, China (55%) is the country predicted to generate the most new issuers by 2030 followed by India (45%), the US (41%), and Brazil (21%). Singapore (12%) comes in at seventh ... ( read original story ...)
Citi Priority – Benefits & Preferential Rates (2019)
Citi Priority, Citibank’s priority banking programme, has the distinction of being perhaps the easiest priority banking programme to qualify for in Singapore. The minimum deposit or investment you hav... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered suffers senior private banker exits in Asia as unit earnings sag: sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Standard Chartered PLC has seen the departure ... A StanChart spokeswoman in Singapore declined to comment on recent staff exits in Asia, but said that the bank continued ... ( read original story ...)