On August 6, 2018, a revised Code of Corporate Governance was released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and certain corporate governance practices were made mandatory for all listed companies through changes to the…
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YOUNG companies are rightly looking towards Indonesia to test-bed their business models. In doing so, they open up an opportunity for themselves – they get a head start into expanding into the country, tapping its…
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Thu, Aug 15, 2019 – 1:33 PM HSBC Singapore on Thursday announced three new senior appointments within its retail banking and wealth management unit. They are Alice Fok as head of customer propositions and marketing,…
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Thu, Aug 15, 2019 – 5:35 PM FINTECH investments in Singapore nearly quadrupled to US$453 million in the first half this year, up from US$118 million in the year-ago period – placing the country as the…
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Singapore HSBC Singapore on Thursday announced three new senior appointments within its retail banking and wealth management unit. Alice Fok has been appointed as head of customer propositions and marketing, Ranojoy Dutta as head of…
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Fri, Aug 16, 2019 – 11:40 AM THE global low-yield environment will continue to bode well for Singapore Government Securities (SGS) bonds, said Eugene Leow, rates strategist at DBS Group Research, on Friday. In particular,…
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Singapore OCBC has seen a tripling of its Greater China earnings contribution over the last five years on the back of its US$5 billion Wing Hang acquisition in 2014, with the piping of OCBC’s regional…
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Singapore SOME analysts are raising acquisition risks behind the reported interest by OCBC to snap up most of Indonesian lender Bank Permata, warning that these pressures could weigh on the bank’s shares in the near…
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Singapore THE backdrop seemed dismal as protesters turned mobbish at some point amid police clashes, crippling much of international travel into Hong Kong over two days. But OCBC’s chief executive officer, Samuel Tsien, was an…
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Mon, Aug 19, 2019 – 5:06 PM DECELERATION in the world economy is beginning to take its toll on dividend payouts around the world, according to the latest Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index. In Singapore, US$3.8…
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