Harness, founded in 2018, bills itself as a matchmaker between investors and advisors, specifically catering to young clients who are aging into a better fiscal position but who lack relationships in ... ( read original story ...)
Deutsche Bank IT engineer who declined Covid-19 test despite runny nose is sole new community case
SINGAPORE - An IT engineer who works at Deutsche Bank was the sole Covid-19 community case announced on Friday (March 12). He developed a runny nose on March 1 and sought medical treatment at a ... ( read original story ...)
Private Banking and Wealth Management Careers in Singapore
In Asia as well as globally, Singapore is one of the leading private banking and wealth management centers. As a country, it has a long history of attracting high net worth individuals (HNWI) thanks ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore-based Thor Group achieves positive earnings for both Q4 2020 and Q1 2021 with unique two-pronged business model
Thor Group growing prominence in SEA and South Asia's entertainment sector has yielded the two-year-old firm positive earnings for both the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. The ... ( read original story ...)
NUS professor asks if it’s time to raise taxes on Singapore’s wealthy
Dr Sumit Agarwal, the Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance, Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, asks if it’s time that taxes were ... ( read original story ...)
Aztech Global debuts on SGX mainboard at 7% above IPO price
Aztech Global began its trading debut at $1.37 on the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) mainboard on Friday (March 12), 7 per cent or $0.09 above its initial public offering price (IPO) of $1.28 per share. ( read original story ...)
After Coupang soars in US IPO, can it deliver for the long term?
Before its blockbuster IPO, Coupang spent 11 years focusing on ... a professor of economics at National University of Singapore. "Coupang is a case of a major global shareholder covering the ... ( read original story ...)
Altimeter SPACs surge on reported $40 billion deal for Singapore ride-hailing company Grab
The Wall Street Journal said deal talks could fall apart and if so, Grab would likely explore a traditional IPO listing on a US exchange later this year. Grab is a Singapore-based company that ... ( read original story ...)
Sources: Singapore’s Swat Mobility eyes IPO in Japan to bankroll expansion
Swat Mobility, an on-demand bus service provider, is considering an initial public offering in Japan to bankroll its expansion,” Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the situation. The ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore hedge funds offer internships to teenagers, promoting home-grown money-managing talent
As billionaire tycoons and global hedge fund giants move en masse to the city state, a shortage of qualified professionals is starting to bite ... ( read original story ...)
PSE may allow preferred shares – only IPO
The Stock Exchange (PSE) plans to allow companies to debut on its bourse by offering preferred shares without having to list their common shares. The ... ( read original story ...)
Deliveroo’s challenge to serve up growth after IPO
In its IPO filings, Deliveroo says the average customer of food delivery services makes just one digital order a week in its markets. So there is room for growth here. Deliveroo also has considerably ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank-backed Coupang raises US$4.2b in IPO, with above-target price: Source
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang priced its initial public offering (IPO) above a targeted range to raise US$4.2 billion (S$5.6 billion) based on the planned size of the share sale, according to ... ( read original story ...)
Easy Trip Planners IPO Subscribed Over 150 Times On Final Day Of Subscription
(Also Read: Easy Trip Planners IPO Subscribed 7.2 Times On Second Day Of Subscription ... Thus it recently incorporated subsidiaries in U.K., U.A.E. and Singapore to garner higher share from ... ( read original story ...)
Target 2047: Delhi’s common man should earn as much as Singapore’s
The tax revenue target for the next financial year is marginally lower than last year’s Rs 44,100 crore, of which only around Rs 29,300 crore could be collected, with the economy battered by the ... ( read original story ...)
Squire Patton Boggs continues Singapore expansion with twin disputes hires
Squire Patton Boggs has hired a team of public international law disputes specialists in Singapore from Harry Elias Partnership as the US firm continues to expand its presence in the southeast Asian ... ( read original story ...)