Financial Services

Surely Singapore will be Southeast Asia's first cashless society

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is right to push for a cashless society in Singapore as a top national priority.

DBS commits to 100% renewable energy usage by 2030

It will install solar panels in its offices and apply for renewable energy certificates.

DBS upgrades cross-border payments with real-time tracking

It will use SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi).

Incomlend raises US$1m in second round of funding

It's total raised capital is nearly at US$1.5m.

UOB, HSBC launch 3-year fixed mortgages

The fixed rate mortgages are sold at 1.68% per year.

Banking on FinTech: How Singapore banks are embracing FinTech today

It wasn’t too long ago when there was a rallying cry of how banks were not doing enough to try and beat smaller FinTech start-ups. Turns out that the...

The future of payments in Singapore's Smart Nation

At this year’s National Day Rally on 20 August, when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke about the most important challenges and opportunities facing...

Why Singapore's accountants need to embrace the cloud before they can take advantage of AI

Singapore climbed the rankings to be the second most cloud ready environment in Asia, according to the latest edition of the Asia Cloud Computing...

Net trading income to boost Singapore banks' profits

The banks' trading income CAGRs were 15–33% between 2011-2016.

CCT converts $4m of its 2.5% convertible bonds

Shareholders exercised conversion rights.