THE yield on the 1-year Singapore Treasury bill (T-bill) has averaged 2.8 per cent so far this month as short-term interest rates move up, but investors eyeing higher yields for the increasingly popular Singapore Savings Bonds (SSB) should not expect a similar pattern for these long-term instruments.
REAL estate-focused investment holding company Tuan Sing Holdings has proposed to acquire and privatise commodities trading group SP Corporation via a scheme of arrangement.
PUB has established a new green financing framework to fund its planned and future green projects, with plans to launch green bonds later this month.
UOB and Doxa signed a memorandum-of-understanding (MOU) with Kimly Construction for the execution of the trio’s first green trade finance transaction together and as part of a industry-wide move to enable companies to move their procurement and trade financing processes online, the bank announced in a press statement...
MOBILE payments platform FOMO Pay has snagged a US$13 million investment led by Jump Crypto, a division of Chicago trading firm Jump Trading Group.
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank and the World Bank issued the first green bond in 2007. Since then, the variety of bond instruments that bear labels related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) purposes has expanded to include social, sustainability, transition and sustainability-linked debt.
THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) may be optimistic about the prospects for transition bonds, but industry players said there are critical taxonomy gaps and more flexible alternatives keeping the financing instrument from taking off.
THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) may be optimistic about the prospects for transition bonds, but industry players said there are critical taxonomy gaps and more flexible alternatives keeping the financing instrument from taking off.
KEVIN Lam believes that having an open mind and being ready for new ideas is key in the ever-changing banking industry.










