Financial Services

Daily Briefing: Grab reportedly eyeing virtual banking license; Thai e-commerce startup Pomelo launches in Singapore

And a study found that Singaporeans bound for Taiwan are the most vulnerable to scams.

Daily Briefing: Grab reportedly eyeing virtual banking license; Thai e-commerce startup Pomelo launches in Singapore

And a study found that Singaporeans bound for Taiwan are the most vulnerable to scams.

Grab and Citi tie up to launch credit card

It is available in the Philippines and will be launched in Thailand later.

UOB Venture Management to launch second PE fund for impact investing

It will make around US$1m-15m equity investments in each investee company.

Chart of the Day: How willing are Singaporeans to buy insurance from newcomers?

Consumers in Malaysia, China and Indonesia are more open than Singaporeans.

GrabPay integrates MyInfo into user verification process

The new feature will be available to all users by end of June 2019.

Singapore banks' bad loan ratio to hit 1.7% by 2020

Blame higher delinquencies from SMEs and non-financial firms.

Singtel and ComfortDelGro tie up for in-app taxi booking feature

The partnership will extend Dash users’ ability to pay for their cab fares via QR code.

Public transport payment via Visa goes live

The project will be one of Visa’s largest implementations for contactless acceptance for transit globally at 30,000 acceptance points.

Singapore Press Holdings arm secures $354.93m loan

It will be used to partially repay its borrowings for its UK student accommodation acquisitions.

Singapore beats Hong Kong as Asia's top treasury location

More multinationals still prefer the Lion City with 4,200 regional headquarters based in Singapore, the largest in APAC.

Bank lending up 1.37% in April

It was buoyed by business loans which rose 2.29% to $411.70b.

Singapore FinTech Association launches RegTech sub-committee

It aims to promote and adopt technologies to overcome regulatory challenges.

Epicentre Holdings cancels private placement after failure to contact CEO

The firm is also facing repayment demands from three creditors.

NTUC Income unveils life insurance portal and digital adviser

Online Life includes 18 savings and protection plans to choose from. NTUC Income launched Online Life and askSage, a life insurance portal and...