After a structural revamp of my company, we have embarked on expansion with more hires as well as moved from a limited liability partnership to a private limited company. Alvinology Media LLP is now AM Collective Pte Ltd and we are committed to do better ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered to cut 10 percent of corporate, institutional banking staff: sources
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG Standard Chartered (STAN.L) is set to cut about a tenth of its global corporate and institutional banking headcount, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday, as the bank keeps up an aggressive drive to cut costs. ( read original story ...)
11 Things You'll Only Learn From Going Through The Singapore Army
As in a real man, not one who blindly follow orders. To help you along, POSB has designed a special savings programme for NSFs - Save As You Serve (SAYS) scheme. POSB SAYS allows you to decide on the amount to save monthly - even an amount as little as S$ ... ( read original ...
Barclays Wealth Units Priced Below Estimate in Sale to OCBC
The final price is based on 1.75 percent of the $13 billion of Barclays assets transferred to Bank of Singapore, OCBC’s private-banking arm, the Singaporean lender said Monday in an exchange filing. OCBC had given an indicative price of $320 million in ... ( read original story ...)
Stocks to watch: OCBC, Keppel Corp, Swissco, Rickmers Maritime
OCBC Bank: Bank of Singapore (BOS), the private banking unit of OCBC Bank, has completed the acquisition of the wealth and investment management (WIM) businesses of Barclays plc in Singapore and Hong Kong for a lower price than stated earlier. BOS ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Singapore completes acquisition of Barclays' investment business
It acquired the business for a lower price. OCBC's private banking unit Bank of Singapore has recently completed the acquisition of the wealth and investment management (WIM) businesses of Barclays in Singapore and Hong Kong for a lower price than what was ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's central bank provides infrastructure to drive innovation
MAS shares its initiatives on enabling innovation such as publishing APIs and testing the feasibility of using blockchain for inter-bank payments. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently announced that it will facilitating the infrastructure ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore extends loans to troubled oil-linked companies
They can now borrow for up to $5m. The Ministry of Trade and Industry announced the enhancement to IE Singapore’s Internationalisation Finance Scheme (IFS) and the reintroduction of SPRING’s Bridging Loan (BL) for companies in the Marine and Offshore ... ( read original story ...)
Black Friday Singapore 2016: Biggest deals and offers you cannot miss
Black Friday, the biggest bargain hunting festival returns to Singapore on 25 November as traders bring in ... and Warehouse, while DBD/POSB cardholders enjoy 30% off for both regular priced and sale items at these brand outlets on all online purchases. ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s first fintech festival
co-hosted the event with the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS). It featured sponsors such as Citibank, UOB, MasterCard and Deloitte. The key programmes of the event included the Innovation Lab Crawl, RegTech Forum, FinTech Hackcelerator ... ( read original story ...)
IE Singapore-UOB join hands to help local firms in trade and internationalisation
SINGAPORE - International Enterprise (IE) Singapore and United Overseas Bank (UOB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Thursday to combine forces to help more Singapore companies in cross-border trade and internationalisation. The aim will be to ... ( read original story ...)
CITIBANK REWARDS AND CITI REBATE PROGRAM TERMS AND CONDITIONS (For Citibank Cardmembers only)
DEFINITIONS 1.1 In these terms and conditions, unless the context otherwise requires: "bank" means Citibank Singapore Limited; "card" means a Singapore dollar Citibank credit card (including a Citibank Business Gold Visa credit card) issued by the bank but ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's auto sales could contract from 2017
Hitting a 137,597-unit peak level seen a decade ago now unlikely. Total vehicle sales in Singapore will begin a period of decline from 2017 to 2020 on the cyclical nature of the market, which is driven by age limits on vehicles and the Certificate of ... ( read original story ...)
No early trains for Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore; SMRT refutes claims it did not give ample notice
SINGAPORE - SMRT has refuted claims that it did not give ample notice to organisers of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS) that it would not be providing early train services for this year's race on Dec 4. Explaining the late announcement to ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore and UOB to boost trade for Singapore companies
The International Enterprise (IE) Singapore and the United Overseas Bank (UOB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to help more Singapore companies in cross-border trade and internationalization. This collaboration taps the rising potential of ASEAN ... ( read original story ...)
Waterfall of tears for Singapore's Coldplay fans as scalpers put 3,000% premium on tickets
The company said more than 40,000 tickets were sold in three phases, with two pre-sales last week for Citibank customers and Live Nation mailing list subscribers, then a general sale for the public on Nov. 21 through the Singapore Sports Hub ticket outlet. ( read original story ...)