Online insurance platform Policybazaar aims to go public in 2021 at a valuation north of $3.5 billion, potentially becoming the first of India’s mega-startups to debut as its digital economy booms. ( read original story ...)
Getz and UOB collaboration helps lower food delivery costs for F&B
UOB and Getz collaboration dishes up lower food delivery costs for F&B businesses and helps them build their online storefronts quickly UOB clients who take up Getz’s solution will enjoy lowered trans ... ( read original story ...)
The rise of personal finance bloggers, out to save financially illiterate millennials
How do you make personal finance shareable for the Instagram generation? Replace jargon with relatable comics and a conversational tone to ensure ... ( read original story ...)
Stock market stakeholders: Simplify IPO process to attract more good companies
The IPO process needs to be simple and ensure better share prices ... At the same time, the market capitalization to GDP ratio at Singapore Exchange was 185.99%, followed by 195.05% Taiwan Stock ... ( read original story ...)
Mindspace Business Parks REIT IPO affirms appetite for Indian commercial real estate among global investors
Considering the response from strategic investors to the Mindspace REIT and high returns from the Embassy REIT, more players may be encouraged to come forward. There may be one more REIT launched by ... ( read original story ...)
Digital platform to guide SME transformation
UOB chief executive officer Wong Kim Choong says the digital ... Since its launch in 2015, The FinLab has received interest from more than 2,000 businesses in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The ... ( read original story ...)
The FinLab launches online platform to help more SMEs
In 2019, to support the needs of SMEs in the region and to serve UOB’s large SME customer base, The FinLab expanded to other ASEAN markets. The FinLab is currently present in three countries – ... ( read original story ...)
Mindspace Business Parks REIT files offer document for IPO; plans to raise Rs 4,500 crore
Mindspace Business Parks REIT today filed its Offer Document with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for the public issue that will help it raise Rs 4,500 crore. ( read original story ...)
Standing Strong With Singapore
REC Group, the international pioneering company based out of Singapore with its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Tuas, is helping power the COVID-19 recovery facility at the Changi ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s June Exports Jump at Faster Pace Than Forecast
Singapore’s exports rebounded in June at a faster rate than expected, mainly due to a surge in electronics and gold from a low base a year ago.Non-oil domestic exports jumped 16.1% from the same time ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Bourse May Test Support At 2,600 Points
The Singapore stock market headed south again on Thursday, one session after it had ended the three-day losing streak in which it had stumbled almost 50 points or 1.9 percent. The Straits Times Index ... ( read original story ...)
Access OCBC digital banking services with SingPass app
OCBC Bank customers in Singapore can now use their SingPass app to access digital banking services via the bank's mobile app or Internet banking.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
Singapore real estate investment trusts ESR and Sabana propose to merge
REIT has agreed to buy Sabana Shari’ah Compliant Industrial REIT in a deal that will create the country's fifth-largest ... ( read original story ...)
Gojek integrates with DBS Paylah! platform to expand access
merchants at the same time The integration of Gojek’s services into the DBS PayLah! platform deepens the strategic partnership between the two companies, which was inked in 2018 at the time of Gojek’s ... ( read original story ...)
UOB and Getz dish up online storefronts for fodd and beverage industry
United Overseas Bank (UOB) today announced it is collaborating with Getz, an end-to-end food and beverage (F&B) digital solution provider, to help F&B businesses set up their online storefronts ... ( read original story ...)
There is no large flow of funds from Hong Kong, Singapore central bank says
Ravi Menon, the MAS chief, says Hong Kong still has its attractions even though inquiries from businesses looking to come to Singapore are picking up. ( read original story ...)