Application for this month's SSB offering is now open and will close at 9pm on 25 March. The upcoming interest payment will be on 1 October 2024, while subsequent payments (until maturity) will be ...
Indian bankers to get higher salary hikes than Singapore, Hong Kong
Salaries in India could rise by 10% in 2024, analyst Sarah Jane Mahmud wrote in a note Friday, citing survey data from consulting firm Aon ...
China central bank leaves key policy rate unchanged, as expected
China's central bank on Friday left a key policy rate unchanged as expected when rolling over maturing medium-term loans.The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said it was keeping the rate on 387 billion ...
Intel has shelved investment in Italy, minister says
Intel has postponed plans to invest in Italy, the country's industry minister said on Thursday, after a project to build an advanced packaging and chip assembly factory first mooted in March 2022 was ...
Indonesia keen to work with Singapore to stage big concerts after city state’s Swift success
After seeing how Taylor Swift enchanted fans in six sold-out concerts, Indonesia has a long list of plans to attract A-list stars to its shores While there had been regional envy over Singapore's ...
Singapore Market ends 0.81% up
At closing bell, the Straits Times Index (STI) index was up 25.68 points, or 0.81% to 3,186.40 after trading between 3,162.63 and 3,190.21. Volume of 1.56 billion shares worth S$1.45 billion changed ...
Retrenchment in Singapore: 61.5% of laid-off workers re-entered workforce 6 months post-retrenchment in Q4 2023
SINGAPORE — The number of retrenched workers who were able to re-enter employment six months after retrenchment declined to 61.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2023 from 65.3 per cent in the ...
Unilever, P&G, Citibank & more to share insights at APAC Trends Briefing event
The future of advertising, the impact of gen AI, sustainability and adapting to ever-changing consumer behaviors will be put under the marketing microscope when The Drum hosts its second annual APAC ...
UOB aims to double private wealth assets by 2026
SINGAPORE - Singaporean lender United Overseas Bank (UOB) is planning to double its private wealth assets under management over the next couple of years as it bets on increased wealth inflows into the ...
Singapore shares climbed on Thursday; STI edged up by 0.3%
SINGAPORE: Singapore shares climbed on Thursday morning despite a mixed global market closure the previous night ... Seatrium was the most actively traded stock by volume, witnessing a 1.1% climb to ...
Singapore’s PCG to reopen fund for luxury Japan ski resort as weak yen beckons
Patience Capital Group, the Singapore-based investor behind a $1.42 billion luxury ski project in northern Japan, is in talks to reopen its fund to new investors eager to get in before tightening by ...
Singaporean Bank UOB Aims to Double Private Wealth Assets by 2026
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singaporean lender United Overseas Bank (UOB) is planning to double its private wealth assets under management over the next couple of years as it bets on increased wealth ...
‘Disappointed before’, but structural shifts make Japan ‘extremely interesting’: Bank of Singapore, Morgan Stanley CIOs
There are real positive fundamental differences between the Japan we know today versus Japan that we knew five to 10 years ago.” ...
DBS banks ‘more than a third’ of Singapore’s 1,100 family offices: wealth management head
DBS banks “more than a third” of Singapore’s family offices, and these high-net-worth individuals are drawn here not just from North Asia but from “all around the world”, says Shee Tse Koon, group ...
BitRealms Secures Early-Stage Investment, Spearheading the Integration of Inscriptions in the Bitcoin Gaming Space
BitRealms, a trailblazer in open metaverse gaming powered by the Merlin Chain, focusing on the novel concept of inscriptions, has successfully completed its initial pre-seed funding phase, with Comma ...
Commentary: Though inflation is easing, Singaporeans are still feeling the pinch
What makes a healthy inflation rate would depend on GDP growth and, more importantly, income growth, says OCBC chief economist Selena Ling.