Singapore’s FinMomenta to lend to low-income employees

Singapore-based fin-tech start-up FinMomenta, which entered the Indian online P2P (peer to peer) lending market early this year with its product called Tachyloans, will soon be lending to salaried professionals working in small and mid-size firms ... ( read original story ...)

BlackRock sells $2bn Singapore tower to CapitalLand trust

US asset manager BlackRock plans to sell an office building in the heart of Singapore’s business district to a local real estate investment trust for $S2.15 billion ($2bn). CapitaLand Commercial Trust would buy Asia Square Tower 2 from BlackRock Asia ... ( read original story ...)

Learn how to use LC in import, export transactions

CGBP will bring in Singapore-based expert Victor Tan, an authority in the field of trade. He has 15 years of banking experience in Europe covering areas of international trade finance, remittances, guarantees, and import and export. He has worked with ... ( read original story ...)

Phoenix Petroleum expands to Singapore

The company formed a Singapore-based trading company “for the primary purpose ... which currently accounts for about one percent of the company’s business. Phoenix Petroleum has entered the LPG retail market with the acquisition of the local unit ... ( read original story ...)

Sampling Singapore Airlines’ business class Book the Cook menu

Singapore Airlines will introduce 'Book the Cook' for its business class and premium economy passengers flying from Brisbane next month: but not before Australian Business Traveller stopped by the airline's Brisbane Airport catering centre to put the new ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Changi pax growth of +7% to 5.27m in August

one of Singapore’s leading mobile network operators StarHub has opened its first 24-hour lounge-concept outlet at Terminal 3 Basement 2, offering a full range of services. These include 24-hour broadband, mobile and cable TV services, plus business ... ( read original story ...)

Business sentiment among S’pore firms up slightly in Q3

SINGAPORE—Business optimism in Singapore rose slightly while the overall business sentiment for Asia as a whole has dropped, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters and Insead released yesterday. Singapore posted a sub-index score of 64 in the July-to ... ( read original story ...)