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 ...)
Singapore Stock Market Likely Rangebound On Friday
(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market on Thursday halted the three-day slide in which it had stumbled almost 30 points or 0.9 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,190-point ... ( read original story ...)
How banking jobs in Singapore have totally changed – and what to do now to get them
If you needed any more convincing that banks in Singapore are increasingly becoming havens for technologists, new data reveals the vast extent of their tech hiring. More than a quarter (27%) of ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Singapore’s new MD reveals surprising hotspot in local job market
Bank of Singapore has snared a senior technologist from rival Julius Baer as competition for tech talent heats up within private banking. Anju Tiwari joined BoS earlier this month as a managing ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore bank loans grind to a halt at 0.5% in 2019
Total loans and advances fell to 2.8% in November 2018 from October's 3.4%. Singapore bank loans are expected to grow by a measly 0.5% by the end of 2019 from a previous estimate of 3% as the slowing ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Regulator Warns Against ‘National Cryptocurrency’ Scam
As we have a highly intelligent reader-base here at Finance Magnates, I hope that no one took the ... A case in point – this Tuesday the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) had to release an announc... ( read original story ...)
Singapore SMEs positive on expansion this year, but less keen to digitise: QBE survey
SINGAPORE (Jan 29): Small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore are more optimistic than ever about their businesses and overall economy coming into 2019, finds a recent study conducted by Australian ... ( read original story ...)
Job in Singapore, clients in China? Banks are now queuing up to hire you
Morgan Stanley’s private bank is focusing much of its new Asian hiring plans on expanding its services for Chinese entrepreneurs wanting to establish family offices in Singapore, Vincent Chui, ... ( read original story ...)
Firmenich Singapore, Only Company in Singapore to be EDGE Certified for Workplace Gender Equality
GENEVA, Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Firmenich Singapore, an affiliate of the world's largest privately-owned perfume and taste company, today announced it is the only company in Singapore to be ... ( read original story ...)