AMID the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt across the world, there are also opportunities on the entrepreneurial front, driven by digitalisation and the availability of talent.
HSBC Holdings Plc can't seem to get a break. Even the financial-market boom that buoyed profits at some banks wasn't enough to save Europe's biggest lender from missing estimates.
THE UK's biggest banks have come a long way since the financial crisis, when taxpayers had to rescue them to the tune of tens of billions of pounds. They're certainly stronger, with comfortable capital buffers, as they head into what could be the worst recession in three...
THE annual Singapore Fintech Festival and Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology take place this December in a hybrid online-offline platform, with round-the-clock events.
UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) on Monday launched its digital bank TMRW in Indonesia.
STANDARD Chartered Bank Singapore has been granted additional privileges as the first bank to qualify as a Significantly Rooted Foreign Bank (SRFB) in the Republic, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday.
UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has announced the launch of UOB Finance Academy, a dedicated training and development programme in Singapore focused on equipping all employees in the bank's finance function with the soft and technical skills required to become future leaders in their field.
MOUNTING concerns over asset quality are likely to take centre stage at the upcoming quarterly results of Singapore's banking trio as companies brace for a prolonged crisis.
ANALYSTS have reset their dividend estimates for Singapore banks in the upcoming second-quarter results, while also projecting for sharp dips in share prices in the near term, after the regulator nudged banks to cap their dividends.
IT WOULD have been the quintessential business success story. Founded in Munich in 1999, this small payment processor for online gambling and pornography sites grew so massive that, by 2018, it had displaced Commerzbank from Germany's prestigious Dax 30 index.













