The Gulf city will see its last Qantas flight on Saturday March 24 – almost five years to the day that the Qantas-Emirates alliance saw the long-standing Singapore stopover axed in favour of Dubai. Most Australian business travellers prefer Singapore to ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines Has ‘Open Mind’ On Air India Bid
New Delhi: Singapore Airlines has an open mind about making an initial bid for a stake in state-run Air India, the head of the Singaporean carrier's India business told Reuters on Thursday. India said last week it would invite initial bids this month for a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore bank DBS urged to stop financing coal-fired power projects in Vietnam
A view of Vinh Tan thermo-power plant in Binh Thuan Province. CHANGE, an environmental protection advocacy organization, has called for Singapore bank DBS to suspend funding coal-fired power projects in Vietnam - PHOTO: THANH HOA The organization told the ... ( read original story ...)
VP Bank Names Private Bank Head Singapore
Liechtenstein-based VP Bank Group named an industry veteran head of private banking at its Singapore business. The banker joins from a local rival. Pun joins from Standard Chartered private bank in Singapore where her last role was managing director and ... ( read original story ...)
Real Risk of ‘Devastating’ Trade War: Singapore Central Bank Chief
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's central bank chief said on Thursday that there is now a real risk of a trade war that could deal a devastating blow to the global economy. U.S. President Donald Trump has recently imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore and Lithuania agree fintech collaboration deal
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Bank of Lithuania have agreed to work together to support the development of the FinTech ecosystems and encourage greater financial innovation in the two countries. The FinTech Co-operation Agreement ... ( read original story ...)
Yes Bank launches a digitised trade finance solution
The initiative aims to bring over one lakh trade transactions going entirely digital, across major geographies including China, US, Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong. BENGALURU: Private sector lender Yes Bank has launched a robotics based ‘Digital export ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore firms supplied North Korea’s top brass with luxury goods: UN report
a North Korean bank the US put on its sanctions list in 2017 OCN’s headquarters in Singapore However, the two companies denied any wrongdoing to the UN. T Specialist testified that the funds did not come from North Korea but from a company registered in ... ( read original story ...)
Effective engagement is key for banks in Singapore to retain customers, finds survey
SINGAPORE (March 15): Two-fifths (40%) of local retail banking customers in Singapore are ready to stop or cancel their services with a bank on the grounds of poor customer engagement, according to a recent study commissioned by customer experience & call ... ( read original story ...)
Central banks of Lithuania, Singapore to cooperate in fintech
The central banks of Lithuania and Singapore have signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of financial technologies, known as fintech, reports LETA/BNS. Photo: lb.lt The Bank of Lithuania said it had signed the deal with the Singaporean monetary ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore tightens hiring norms, more trouble for Indian techies
Under the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, Singapore is committed to facilitating free movement of skilled professionals in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) domain for short durations. "However, there is no separate visa ... ( read original story ...)
Cheap deals and holographic technology make an appearance at IT Show 2018
SINGAPORE -It's not quite Star Wars technology but visitors to the four-day IT Show 2018 at Suntec Singapore - which opened on Thursday (March 15) - can catch a new 3D-hologram display that is being showcased to the public for the first time in Singapore. ( read original story ...)
Singapore tops global rankings on smart cities
Singapore has come out tops in a global smart city performance study, beating 19 other cities in harnessing technology to improve areas such as mobility, healthcare, public safety and productivity. By submitting your personal information, you agree that ... ( read original story ...)
Mr. Roboto Goes to Singapore: Why This Small Country is Pushing the New Frontiers of Robotics
While Movel AI’s technology is undergoing pilot testing to make their technology “more robust and adaptive,” there’s already a ready market in Singapore for rolling out their software as it is in line with the vision of the Singaporean government ... ( read original story ...)
SMRT teams up with McLaren to use F1 technology to monitor train performance
SINGAPORE - Trains here could soon undergo rigorous Formula ... SMRT and McLaren engineers are aiming to adapt race car condition-monitoring technology to assess the performance of MRT trains. Such technology, used on F1 cars, provides information from ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore deploys McLaren’s F1 tech to monitor MRT train performance
SINGAPORE’S SMRT Trains will be working closely with UK-based McLaren Applied Technologies to adapt Formula 1 race car technology to monitor the performance of its MRT trains as the city-state looks to preserve its status as having one of the most ... ( read original story ...)