MERGERS and acquisitions (M&A) activity within South-east Asia bucked the overall downtrend in the Asia-Pacific (Apac) ex-Japan region for the first half this year, with Singapore recording US$17.1 billion in deals - a 154 per cent increase, or over 2.5 times the year-ago amount.
REPUBLIC Polytechnic (RP) students and their parents can now pay school fees online using PayNow, under a new partnership between the school and OCBC Bank.
SINGAPORE-based fund manager Golden Equator Capital (GEC) has raised a total of US$90 million in two private capital funds for the growth capital of an undisclosed public-listed company in the region.
SINGAPORE Life - a fintech with an insurance and wealth focus - has secured a US$90 million investment from Sumitomo Life Insurance, with the major Japanese life insurer buying about 25 per cent in the Singapore firm.
ASIA-PACIFIC banks have to be cost-efficient or prepare to be acquired, warned McKinsey & Company. But there is considerably less room for consolidation in Singapore.
SINGAPORE Life - a fintech with an insurance and wealth focus - has secured a US$90 million investment from Sumitomo Life Insurance, with the major life insurer in Japan buying about 25 per cent in Singapore Life. 
THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has picked Singapore as one of three sites where they will set up its first wave of innovation hub centres.
THE chills arising from trade tensions between the US and China has pushed Asia closer, with recent data from banks showing signs of the region's huddle in terms of intra-regional trade and capital flows.
THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) will establish an innovation hub centre in Singapore, along with one each in Basel, Switzerland and Hong Kong.
SAVERS may want to consider locking in the higher fixed deposit rates available now before banks and financial institutions here take the cue from the dovish United States central bank and cut their fixed deposit rates.
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