(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market has finished lower in two of three trading days since the end of the five-day winning streak in which it had advanced almost 120 points or 3.6 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,310-point ... ( read original story ...)
Nine ways to stop your job being offshored out of Singapore or Hong Kong
Nervous that your banking job will soon be heading to India? Here’s how to stay employed in Singapore or Hong Kong. http://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/289689/trends-singapore-banking-jobs/ Global banks continue to shift back-office and tech-support ... ( read original story ...)
Half-Time Report: How Are The IPOs In Singapore In 2017 Faring?
In this week alone, there were two new IPOs to the Singapore market, namely NetLink NBM Trust and Union Gas Holdings. This brings the total number of IPOs as of 21 July 2017 to 12. All of these IPOs marked their entrance on the market with an opening price ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 2-Singtel’s NetLink makes tepid debut; more Singapore IPOs in pipeline
SINGAPORE, July 19 (Reuters) - NetLink NBN Trust units closed steady at their offer price on Wednesday, although analysts said the muted debut was not a surprise given the large size of the listing and that the outlook for Singapore's IPO market remained ... ( read original story ...)
Traders Rejoice: Lunch Break Is Returning to Singapore’s Stock Market
Traders in Singapore soon won’t have to worry about being chained to their desks for lunch. Singapore Exchange, known as SGX, said earlier this week that it will reinstate a daily one-hour lunch break, in which trading will stop from noon to 1 p.m. local ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Stock Market May Extend Winning Streak
The winning streak has hit five sessions now for the Singapore stock market, which has advanced almost 120 points or 3.6 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,325-point plateau and the market is looking at another green ... ( read original story ...)
Biggest IPO in six years, NetLink debuts on SGX
The company, which owns the fibre network that is the foundation of Singapore’s next generation nationwide broadband network, is the broadband unit of telecom company Singtel. The initial public offering (IPO) was two times subscribed with S$4.7 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri makes private banking push in Singapore
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's largest bank by assets, PT Bank Mandiri Tbk (BMRI.JK), plans to open a full branch in Singapore as it makes a push into private banking in the city-state by targeting freshly declared wealth under Indonesia's tax amnesty scheme. ( read original story ...)
Consolidation Likely For Singapore Stock Market
(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market has moved higher in four straight sessions, advancing almost 100 points or 3 percent in its way to a two-year closing high. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,305-point plateau although investors ... ( read original story ...)
Hierarchical, disorganised, anti-social: my internship at a Singapore bank
I’m an intern at a Singaporean bank. My work is too unstructured, I’m not learning much on the job, and I don’t get to network. http://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/219062/which-banks-to-work-for-if-you-want-a-big-intern-salary-in-singapore ... ( read original story ...)
Swimming With Singapore Sharks
PT Bank Mandiri, Indonesia's largest lender by assets, is set to wade into the cutthroat private-banking business in neighboring Singapore. The idea might seem a little ridiculous. Among the top 15 Asian private banks (excluding onshore wealth ... ( read original story ...)
1 in 5 Singaporeans mull over switching from main bank, study reveals
A study by JD Power has revealed that probably a portion of Singapore bank customers are not satisfied with the services of their current bank. Almost 20 percent of customers, or one in five, are considering leaving their primary bank for another in the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, Indonesia ready to exchange taxpayers’ financial data – ministries
About 11 percent of those assets were expected to be repatriated back to Indonesia. On Wednesday, Singapore's Ministry of Finance said in a statement the city-state "is ready to have an Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (AEOI ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Top Performing IPO This Year Surged 158%
Start your day with what's moving markets in Asia. Sign up here to receive our newsletter. After staging concerts in Singapore for the past two decades, the city-state’s best-performing initial public offering this year is taking its entertainment on the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore IPO activity this year poised to surpass 2016 levels
There was quite a number of successful Initial Public Offerings (IPO) in Singapore for the first half of the year, and this could spell a stellar overall IPO activity for 2017. According to the latest figures by PwC Singapore, IPOs for 1H17 raised US$329m. ( read original story ...)
Singapore ready for ‘automatic exchange of financial account information’ relationship with Indonesia: MOF
JAKARTA - Singapore is ready to have an Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (AEOI) relationship with Indonesia, said the city-state's Ministry of Finance (MOF). "This is in line with our consistent position for a level playing field with ... ( read original story ...)