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DBS enhances customer service touchpoints
DBS enhances customer service touchpoints
It retrained over 500 employees and opened new roles including video biometrics specialists and live chat agents.
Great Eastern Holdings' profits soar 124% to $342.7m in Q1
Gross premiums rose 6% thanks mySalam Scheme contributions.
Banks turn to corporates for loan boost as mortgages weaken
Housing loan limits granted in Q1 fell to its lowest since Q4 2015 around $7.3b.
UOB profit up 8% to $1.05b in Q1
The earning boost came from strong income figures which hit $2.41b.
MAS complete cross-border payments in blockchain with Canada central bank
Project Ubin was linked to Canada's experimental domestic payment network, Project Jasper.
Fintech firm Silot snaps up $10.8m in series A funding to boost R&D
The funding round was led by SBI Investment.
Jungle Ventures raises US$175m in first close of third fund
One of its investors is reportedly Temasek Holdings.
Singapore splurges $2.8b on FX fees yearly: report
The average consumer spends 15 times as much as companies in FX fees per dollar remitted.
Daily Briefing: Temasek Holdings aims to grow US footprint; Space-tech startup SpeQtral raises US$1.9m in seed funding
And here are the jobs at Standard Chartered that are safest from its aggressive restructuring.
Singapore bank loans shrink to 2.9% in Q1
Consumer loan growth slowed to just 0.3% in March.
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NETS inks deal with Myanmar Payment Union
The parties will co-develop a QR payment platform in Myanmar.
Singapore's appetite for foreign hires is diminishing in 2019
Jobseekers are urged to upskill as HR departments become pressured to employ local staff.
DBS removes OTPs in digital token for corporate customers
The upgraded digital token will be available in Asia starting May 2019.
UOB ties up with SGX and CCOIC to support Chinese firms
The tripartite alliance aims to help Chinese firms expand to ASEAN.
DBS Q1 profit up 9% to $1.65b
Strong interest income offset declining wealth management, brokerage and investment banking fees.
Online hiring for banking roles up 28% in March
Singapore figures outpaced that of Malaysia and the Philippines.
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