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Fintech

Cyber threats now top risk for banking and capital markets CEOs

SINGAPORE (Mar 23): Cyber threats have replaced over-regulation as the top concern for banking and capital markets (BCM) CEOs.

Singapore economy

Singapore is still Asia's top ranked city for quality of living but where's the improvement?

SINGAPORE (Mar 20): Singapore has once again bagged the title of Asia’s highest ranked city in terms of quality of living over the past 12 months, based on findings from Mercer’s 20th edition of its Quality of Living survey.

Effective engagement is key for banks to retain customers, finds survey

SINGAPORE (Mar 15): Two-fifths (40%) of local retail banking customers in Singapore are ready to stop or cancel their services with a bank on the grounds of poor customer engagement, according to a recent study commissioned by customer experience & call c

Singapore economy

Digital products & services to drive 60% of Singapore's GDP by 2021, predicts study

SINGAPORE (Feb 21): An IDC study commissioned by Microsoft predicts that digital transformation will add about US$10 billion ($13.2 billion) to Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures by 2021 with an annual increase in GDP growth rate by 0.6%.

Global Economy

Singapore remains among world's 'least miserable' economies

SINGAPORE (Feb 15): Rising prices are more of a threat to the global economy this year than joblessness, according to Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which sums inflation and unemployment outlooks for 66 economies.

Tech

Criminals are now creating non-existent identities to conduct fraud, survey finds

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.

M&A

How M&A deals in Singapore could fail to generate shareholder value

SINGAPORE (Feb 5): Companies in Singapore risk jeopardising the value of their merger and acquisition (M&A) deals by underinvesting in post-merger integration, according to EY.  

Singapore economy

Why local SMEs prefer to stay put in Singapore over international expansion

SINGAPORE (Jan 29): Small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore appear to display an appalling lack of interest in taking their businesses beyond the city state, according to QBE’s annual survey of more than 400 local SME business leaders.

New business opportunities abound for retailers as industry landscape transforms, says Deloitte

SINGAPORE (Jan 24): It is a transformative time in retail with consumers in the driver’s seat, according to Deloitte Global.

Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy

The state of STEM education in Singapore

SINGAPORE (Jan 17): About 90% of students in Singapore enjoy one or more Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects, according to Edelman’s STEM Education in Asia Pacific Survey.
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