SINGAPORE: Finance Minister Lawrence Wong has been appointed deputy chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) board of directors, ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Pledges $605 Million in Further Virus Help Amid Curbs
Singapore announced S$800 million ($605 million) in additional support for businesses and individuals affected by restrictions imposed this month as it confronts a recent uptick in Covid-19 cases.The ... ( read original story ...)
Likely no need to further tighten Singapore’s Covid-19 rules as community cases have stabilised: Lawrence Wong
SINGAPORE - Prevailing measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus have been working so far as the number of new community cases have stabilised, said Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday ... ( read original story ...)
International Finance Corporation and Mitsui to invest c.US$60 million in Singapore-based MiCare Health Technologies
MiCare HealthTEC Holdings Pte Ltd ("MiCare"), a subsidiary of Zuellig Pharma and a leading medical claims administrator in the region, has announced that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a ... ( read original story ...)
Big Tech Drawn to Singapore’s New Carbon Offset Trading Market
Some of the world’s largest tech corporations -- from Google to Microsoft Corp. and Amazon -- are in talks with a new carbon offset trading platform in Singapore that would be among the first to be ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC SME Index: How Small Businesses Can Use Data To Forecast Their Industry Direction
BMI is a useful indicator of a person’s health, while the PSI tells us about our air quality. In that same vein, the OCBC SME Index is a measure of the business health and performance of Singapore’s ... ( read original story ...)
Lucky Plaza, NEX visited by COVID-19 cases during infectious period
SINGAPORE: Lucky Plaza and the FairPrice Xtra supermarket at NEX were on Thursday (May 27) added to a list of public places visited by COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)
GlobalFoundries gets closer to IPO after moving HQ from Santa Clara to New York
This week, Snowflake Inc., which was based in San Mateo when it did one of the biggest tech IPOs of 2020, said it isn't going to have a headquarters anywhere anymore. It now lists Bozeman, Montana — ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Police Say Crypto-Related Crimes Keep Rising across the Country
Singaporean police had reported that cryptocurrency-related crimes have skyrocketed since 2018, and the uptrend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. According to The Straits Times, around 393 reports were ... ( read original story ...)
Unveiling Singapore IP Strategy 2030: Building A World Class IA/IP Regime.
On 26 April 2021, commemorating World IP Day, Singapore unveiled another 2030 goal – the S ingapore IP Strategy 2030 (SIPS 2030). In a global economy driven by innovation and powered by intangible ... ( read original story ...)
Microsoft-backed Bukalapak plans Indonesia IPO by August
Last month, Bukalapak raised US$ 234 million in a round of funding led by US tech titan Microsoft, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund ... Bukalapak joins the IPO rush in Asia, where companies have ... ( read original story ...)
Commercial banks aid rollout of new framework for green trade finance transactions in Singapore
An industry-led taskforce has introduced a new framework for green trade finance and working capital transactions in Singapore, though participating banks admit that the initiative is still in its ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Outlook for Industrial Production remains firm – UOB
Singapore’s industrial production expanded 2.1% y/y (+1.0% m/m sa) in April 2021, in line with our call for a 2.3% y/y growth (+2.3% m/m sa). Excluding biomedical manufacturing, industrial production ... ( read original story ...)
Robinsons realty firm plans P26.7B IPO for its REIT
Gokongwei-led Robinsons Land Corp. (RLC) plans to raise as much as P26.7 billion from the initial public offering of a real estate investment trust (REIT) that it will ... ( read original story ...)
Indonesia’s e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak files for domestic IPO
Bukalapak is understood to be the only major local tech firm to have submitted a proposal to the local stock exchange. ( read original story ...)
Robinsons REIT sets P26.6-B IPO in end-August
RL Commercial REIT Inc., the real estate investment trust company backed by Robinsons Land Corp., has set its P26.6-billion initial public offering (IPO) in August. ( read original story ...)