Financial Services
Singapore’s debt collectors team up to salvage tarnished public image
Singapore’s debt collectors team up to salvage tarnished public image
The industry’s first professional organization has been formed.
Weary investors turn to Singapore banks as outlook dims for other sectors
Banking stocks are expected to rally.
UOB’s delinquent housing loans jumped 12.3% in Q3
This is its the highest level since 2004.
Cash-strapped Singaporean execs struggle to make ends meet each month: report
Almost 1 in 2 execs have zero savings.
Hong Leong Finance promotes Ang Tang Chor to deputy president
His present post was senior executive vice president of Corporate and Consumer Business.
CapitalVia bags the Red Herring, Deloitte and ET Now Recognitions
It zeroes in on pure play technical research.
All companies can file their taxes online starting 2015: IRAS
It will reduce compliance costs and raise efficiency.
Auditors zoom in on charities and public institutions with ACRA’s new accounting rules
Stricter professional guidelines will be rolled out.
Singapore CB returns up to $9b to banks in rate probe
To maintain a clean financial environment.
Life insurance industry hit with sales slowdown as new sales slide 6% in Q3
New business premiums slipped to $705.4m.
Maxi-Cash’s refusal to expand overseas could take toll on profits
It’s already a full house in Singapore.
More Singapore bankers dreading bonus cuts this year: report
Over one in five are downbeat on their payouts.
Skilled talent crunch threatens Singapore’s booming finance sector
The sector won’t survive without talent imports.
SMEs scramble to pay debts on time as creditors roll out tighter lending checks
Q3 was one of the fastest payment cycles in the last five years.
Local banks' loan growth came to a standstill in Q3
Blame it on the slowing Chinese economy.
Chart of the Day: Here's how Singapore's manufacturers have become more pessimistic about their business outlook
Services firms are not bucking the trend.
Frugal bosses snub local job hunters as bonus time draws near
But financial services professionals are extremely upbeat.