Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Chow Wan Thonh as its head of global banking. According to a statement on Wednesday (13 February), she will succeed Patrick Lee, who was promoted to chief executi... ( read original story ...)
Car Loan in Singapore – Guide to Financing Your Car in Singapore (2019)
This legal document lets you drive it in Singapore for either 5 or 10 years ... Because if you want to borrow money to finance your car, the amount you can borrow is dependent on the OMV, NOT the tota... ( read original story ...)
Singapore is Asia’s most ready nation for autonomous vehicle adoption
SINGAPORE (Feb 13): Singapore continues to remain at No.1 in Asia in terms of readiness to embrace autonomous vehicles (AVs) and second in the world after the Netherlands, unchanged from a year ago. T... ( read original story ...)
The Incredible Shrinking Singapore Stock Market
Robson Lee had a decision to make. In his more than two-decade career as a capital-markets lawyer in Singapore, he’d helped more than 30 companies list on the country’s stock exchange, bringing to mar... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s stock market is shrinking, but does it matter?
(Feb 12): Robson Lee had a decision to make. In his more than two-decade career as a capital-markets lawyer in Singapore, he’d helped more than 30 companies list on the country’s stock exchange, bring... ( read original story ...)
What is the future of the Singapore stock market?
Picking up on Chew’s point, Hadow too disputes the commonly held view that Singapore has not grown as a capital-raising centre. “While IPOs may have been a bit scarce, the secondary market raisings re... ( read original story ...)
Fury at HIV data leak in conservative Singapore
Singapore (AFP) - Rico has lived with HIV for almost a decade, confiding in only a small number of people in socially conservative Singapore, fearful of the reaction. Last month, he got a phone ... ( read original story ...)
Wirecard Probes Intensify as Allegations Accelerate Stock Plunge
Investigations into German payments company Wirecard AG intensified as police in Singapore raided local offices, while Munich prosecutors started a probe into possible market manipulation over reports ... ( read original story ...)
Central bank of the year: Monetary Authority of Singapore
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has displayed an enviable track record for monetary and financial stability, implements coherent financial system oversight as a ‘super-regulator’, and has emerged ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore police probing report of fraud by Germany’s Wirecard
In Singapore, a regional finance hub, the police's Commercial Affairs Department carries out investigations on financial crimes such as money laundering. Stocks in Wirecard, which knocked banking ... ( read original story ...)
What Does the Year of the Pig Bring for the Stock Market?
Volatility in the stock market brings about opportunities to buy wonderful businesses at low prices. From 1993 to 2017, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), Singapore’s stock market benchmark, saw som... ( read original story ...)
Singapore : Maoyan Entertainment makes weak HK debut
Shares in Maoyan Entertainment opened near-flat at HK$14.82 (S$2.56), barely one per cent higher than the initial public offering (IPO) price of HK$14.80, which was already at the bottom end of an ind... ( read original story ...)
Can Hong Kong keep its title as the world’s hottest IPO market? Here’s its game plan
Hong Kong regains global IPO crown from New York in 2018 thanks to its listing ... Hong Kong’s exchange is much bigger than Singapore’s in terms of market capitalisation. HKEX ranks as the fifth large... ( read original story ...)
Mild Rebound Predicted For Singapore Stock Market
(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market headed south again on Friday, one session after it had ended the three-day slide in which it had stumbled almost 30 points or 0.9 percent. The Straits Times ... ( read original story ...)
How Did the Singapore Stock Market Perform in January 2019?
Singapore’s stock market benchmark, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), started the new year positively. For the month of January, the index rose 4%, or 121 points, to 3,190. Of the 30 Straits Times ... ( read original story ...)
Banking on banks
In a recent interview with The Edge Singapore, Harsh Modi, banking analyst at JPMorgan for Southeast Asia, indicated that Singapore banks stood out as the most visible in terms of margins and loan gro... ( read original story ...)