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SINGAPORE’S well-capitalised digital banks have made a splash lately with targeted offerings to wrest market share from the incumbents. The real change, however, is taking place with much less aplomb across South-east Asia – where niche fintechs are finding a newly receptive audience for their digital products.

THE Asia Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI) plans to target retail investors after its online sustainable finance courses for professionals have already attracted about 5,000 participants in the first year, according to ASFI owner the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore.

EVENTS bookending the Singapore Grand Prix this month have put to rest any doubts that the country remains a leading global cryptocurrency hub.

AFTER 11 years as chief financial officer (CFO) of OCBC, Darren Tan will be stepping down as he has opted to retire early.

AFTER 11 years as chief financial officer (CFO) of OCBC, Darren Tan will be stepping down as he has opted to retire early.

THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has banned Raj Sriram – the former deputy chief executive and head of private banking of BSI Bank Singapore (BSIS) – from providing financial advisory services or being part of the management, director or substantial shareholder of any financial advisory firm.

DBS on Monday (Oct 10) announced the launch of a new programme, the DBS FinTech Apprenticeship Programme, a three-year apprenticeship programme to prepare polytechnic students for technology roles in the bank.

Fears are mounting that the US Federal Reserve is overtightening interest rates, a policy mistake that could cause a deep recession or a major market breakdown.

SINGAPORE’S financial regulator is taking “longer than expected” to come up with an equitable loss-sharing framework for financial scams, as it tries to ascertain how different stakeholders share responsibility for these scams, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan said in Parliament on Wednesday (Oct 5)....

THE tendency of global capital markets to overprice risks in emerging economies, as well as over-react to shocks, have not only prevented gaps in climate finance from being filled, but have also widened them, said Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.