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STRONG public-private partnerships have played a key role in driving efficiencies and reducing costs in the delivery of financial services products, according to Pat Patel, executive director at Elevandi, which is one of the organisers of the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF).

CRYPTO exchange Okcoin believes customers should do their research to understand the underlying technologies of cryptocurrencies, as it seeks to enable adoption of digital assets in a “responsible and meaningful way”.

SINGAPORE’S Treasury bill (T-bill) with a six-month tenor auctioned on Thursday (Oct 27) reported a cut-off yield of 4.19 per cent per annum – a record high in decades and 42 basis points higher than the 3.77 per cent on the issuance a fortnight ago.

SINGAPORE’S Treasury bill (T-bill) with a six-month tenor auctioned on Thursday (Oct 27) reported a cut-off yield of 4.19 per cent per annum – a record high in decades and 42 basis points higher than the 3.77 per cent on the issuance a fortnight ago.

SINGAPORE’S banking trio are expected to reap substantial gains in the third quarter of 2022, as interest rate hikes finally make themselves felt considerably in the local financing environment.

THE measures newly proposed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to protect retail cryptocurrency traders offer regulatory clarity in a nascent but risky space. Enforcement measures remain elusive, however, particularly because the crypto industry is one characterised by anonymity.

THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released a consultation paper to get conversations started on reducing risks for retail customers dabbling in cryptocurrency. Among the suite of measures it has proposed to this end are the restricting of cryptocurrency trading via credit, implementing customer-knowledge assessments, and prohibiting...

HOMEOWNERS in Singapore are spending more of their monthly income on mortgage repayments, according to a Tuesday (Oct 25) report by Moody’s Investors Service. 

OCBC has become a signatory to the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which now has 119 member banks across 41 countries to represent close to 40 per cent of global banking assets amounting to US$70 trillion.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of South-east Asian economies. They account for 89 to 99 per cent of the total count of establishments in the region and contribute anything between 30 and 53 per cent of each country’s gross domestic product.