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SINGAPORE-BASED fintech Smartkarma will integrate its technology with major US brokerage Interactive Brokers, it said in a media release.

THE money-laundering scandals keep rolling in, most recently in Estonia, where a subsidiary of Danske Bank reportedly processed some 200 billion euros (S$305 billion) in suspicious payments from around the region in recent years.

IN 2018, US$1.7 billion worth of crypto currency was stolen - over triple the amount lost the year before, despite the market slump. An astounding US$950 million of those stolen digital assets was taken directly from exchanges or wallets. From a lack of good security practices to...

INVESTMENT banks and asset managers are trimming their headcount as bottom lines get battered by the US-China trade war, rising US interest rates and slowing economic growth.

THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has slapped prohibition orders (POs) on three individuals who worked for separately for HSBC, UOB and NTUC Income after their convictions in court for offences involving fraud and dishonesty.

TWO men have been charged in court in Singapore on April 10 for promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency, OneCoin, under a multi-level marketing scheme.

IN the first case of its kind in Singapore, two men were charged in court on April 10 with promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency, OneCoin, using a multi-level marketing scheme.

DBS Group Holdings has priced US$750 million of three-year senior unsecured notes at a coupon of 2.85 per cent under its US$30 billion global medium term note programme, the bank announced on Wednesday.

DBS Group Holding’s pricing of a S$750 million deal for Societe Generale has so far seen demand for S$1.55 billion of the bonds at the reoffered price, the book runner said on Wednesday.

ACCOUNTING is experiencing more disruption than ever before. Manual or repetitive tasks will be replaced by automation, robotics and machine learning in the near future. However, this does not mean that the accounting profession is a sunset industry. In fact, with the rise of the technological applications...