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FORMER German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt used to lament how Germany's giant banking groups would stoke up dangerous enmity among neighbouring countries by inevitably dominating European finance. A senior French banker once told me that French and German banks would never merge because the Germans would always have...

SINGAPORE banks have jazzed up their savings plans to find favour from maturing millennials, locking in a tighter banking relationship with customers amid the rising ease in switching banks today, as well as tapping the rising affluence in the city-state.

OCBC Bank, Singapore's second largest lender, said on Monday that bancassurance remains a core part of its business, when asked if the bank would consider outsourcing it to another partner as its local peers have done.

DBS Group Holdings posted a 9 per cent rise in Q1 earnings to a record S$1.65 billion on higher margin, strong trading income and a S$100 million write-back due to improved credit quality.

DBS Group Holdings, the nation's largest home loan provider, saw its mortgage book shrink for the first time in years in the first quarter of 2019, chief executive Piyush Gupta said on Monday.

BANCASSURANCE remains a core part of OCBC Bank's business and is much more than just an insurance operation, chief executive Samuel Tsien said at the bank's annual general meeting on Monday.

DBS Bank has introduced a new digital token to provide a higher level of security and an improved user experience to more than 200,000 of its corporate and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) customers on DBS IDEAL, the lender said in a press statement on Sunday. ...

DBS Group Holdings, the nation's largest home loan provider, saw its mortgage book shrink for the first time in years in the first quarter of 2019, chief executive Piyush Gupta said on Monday.

NETS will share with Myanmar’s national payment network its technical and operational knowledge on Singapore’s unified e-payment system for QR codes - the Singapore Quick Response (SGQR) Central Repository platform, with the intention of implementing a similar platform in the South-east Asian country.

UBS' invested assets at its wealth management division in Asia-Pacific hit US$405 billion in the first quarter of 2019, said the world's largest private bank.