Singapore last June announced plans to issue up to five digital bank licenses as part of efforts to add market diversity and boost the banking system in the country, as it looked to become a digital ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Sports Hub unveils unique virtual workout experience
The Singapore Sports Hub announces a unique virtual workout experience through a new online series of daily fitness programmes to be launched on 17th April. These curated workout sessions in 7-minute ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Cases Jump; China Economic Data Awaited: Virus Update
The Trump administration issued guidelines that could allow states and employers to abandon most social distancing practices within a month.The U.S. steps toward reopening the economy sparked an ... ( read original story ...)
Globalization Partners to Credit Singapore Payroll Funds to Clients
Globalization Partners, which enables companies to hire and retain global team members without setting up complex international legal infrastructures, today announced it will issue a payroll credit to ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Researchers Use NanoString’s nCounter Platform to Rapidly Profile the Response of the Immune System to the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
NUS Academic Medical Centre in Singapore use Simplicity and Speed of nCounter to Publish Study Within Weeks of Infection. NanoString Offers COV ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore oil trader Hin Leong meets banks over finances – sources
Singapore oil trader Hin Leong held a call with banks on Tuesday after they failed to provide a letter of credit to the firm to purchase at least one cargo of oil products due to load this month, four ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Singapore oil trader Hin Leong meets banks over finances – sources
Singapore oil trader Hin Leong held a call with banks on Tuesday after they failed to provide a letter of credit to the firm to purchase at least one cargo of oil products due to load this month, four ... ( read original story ...)
China Optimism, Xiaomi Ties Help Shunwei CEO Debut On 2020 Forbes Midas List
Working from home himself in Singapore, Koh sees more room for video and audio services in business. Shunwei has 20 staff back in China. Notably standing the test of time has been Koh’s original ... ( read original story ...)
Sharp Slowdown Seen in Asia IPO Deals With Stocks in Bear Market
Rarely have equity capital markets bankers had such a hard time predicting how business will be in the months to come. ( read original story ...)
The Top 10 Companies Behind The 2020 Midas List: Uber, Ant Financial And The Breakouts That Helped Investors Make The Cut
From Ant Financial to Xiaomi, and Spotify to Uber, these 10 companies put the most investors on the 2020 Midas List of the world's top tech investors. ( read original story ...)
Luckin Coffee: The Luck Runs Out
The bulk of them helped underwrite the IPO of the company, with Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, also among Luckin's early backers. Multiple law ... ( read original story ...)
Three Gorges Dam Mulls IPO in China to Raise as Much as $3.5B
China’s Three Gorges Renewables Group is planning to raise up to CNY 25 billion ($3.52 billion) in what could be the country’s second biggest IPO of the year. Three Gorges looks to sell up to 8.57 ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus Forces Bankers From ‘Dire’ IPO Market to Emergency Capital Raises
Not a single European company listed on the stock market in March as the coronavirus spread across the continent, with bankers now counting on fees from emergency share sales and rights issues to keep ... ( read original story ...)
Here’s why China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation Ltd’s (SGX:G92) Returns On Capital Matters So Much
Today we'll look at (SGX:G92) and reflect on its potential as an investment. To be precise, we'll consider its Return On Capital Employed (ROCE), as that will inform our view of the quality of the ... ( read original story ...)
A New Decade For Asia’s Tech Capital: Three Things That Will Define Singapore’s Startup Scene in the 2020s
Singapore is combating any business complacency with new budgets for new industries and long-term national goals. Singapore Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat told The Straits Times during a visit to the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore announces third stimulus package worth $3.6 billion to soften coronavirus impact
Together with the previous two packages, Singapore has set aside 59.9 billion Singapore dollars ($41.7 billion), accounting for around 12% of the country's gross domestic product. ( read original story ...)