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SINGAPORE (Feb 7): While prevention technologies have managed to deter identity fraud activities such as card skimming, criminals are now beginning to steal identities or even constructing entirely new ones to obtain real credit cards from banks.

SINGAPORE (Jan 30): Close to nine in 10 banks globally say addressing cybersecurity in the top priority in 2018, amid a shift toward digitalisation and innovation for future growth.

SINGAPORE (Oct 4): A majority of small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore are unlikely to qualify for business financing, according to recent data from Linkflow Capital.

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): Singapore's total bank lending in July fell 0.5% from June, due to a decline in loans to businesses, central bank data showed on Thursday.

TOKYO (Aug 16): Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is raising a fund to build dormitories to profit from the shortage of accommodation for the surging number of international students at Japan’s universities.  

SINGAPORE (Aug 1): It took an earnings announcement from the smallest of Singapore's banks to shake the edifice of optimism that investors had built around all three of them. 

SINGAPORE (June 28): RHB is maintaining its “neutral” stance on Singapore’s banking sector as Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS) data reflected a 20% q-o-q increase in 1Q17 loan applications, which the research house says is a positive for Singapore bank

(June 19): Investors are hoping the Federal Reserve will allow big US banks to put an estimated US$150 billion ($208 billion) in idle capital toward stock buybacks, dividends and profit-boosting investments in the coming weeks after conducting a regular e

HONG KONG (June 16): Creditors of struggling commodity trader Noble Group have agreed to offer a lifeline by pushing back a repayment deadline on a crucial credit line until October, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

SINGAPORE (May 9): Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) has posted a net profit after tax of $973 million for 1Q17, 14% above $856 million in 1Q16.