Singapore

Chart of the Day: Property sales jumped 14% in January-February

Transaction values also soared 46%, driven mainly by the secondary market.

Chart of the Day: Property sales jumped 14% in January-February

Transaction values also soared 46%, driven mainly by the secondary market.

Singtel to link mobile wallets across Asia

Singtel expects the service to launch mid-2018 in 20,000 points in Singapore and Thailand.

Holland Road GLS site's quantum could hit $1b

It already attracted 15 bids, exceeding analyst expectations.

GIC joins $140m investment pool for DNA analysis firm

The company develops a portable DNA/RNA sequencer for customers in 70 countries.

Singapore is the most liveable city in Asia

The distance of its rankings with other Asian cities reflects a disparity in quality of living.

9 in 10 Singaporeans want to use fingerprint and facial recognition in banks

Only 1 in 5 are currently using the technology in banking services.

Prudential and Orbis sell 42 million shares in Noble

$5.5m worth of shares were sold in less than a week as Noble approaches a bond default.

DBS launches Electricity Marketplace in Jurong

This will enable 108,000 households to apply for energy plans directly in the platform.

FJ Benjamin to integrate brick-and-mortar and online stores

It formed an Omnichannel Advisory Board that will facilitate the integration.

Credit searches by Singaporean firms rose 3.04% in 2017

These were fuelled by overall trade growth in 2017.

Brace for more price hikes amidst possible MAS tightening

The MAS could now tighten its policy in 2018 in a bid to ensure that headline inflation remains within its range of 0-1%.

2 in 5 workers will leave their companies in 2018

Besides salary issues, more workers are seeking new career challenges.

90,000 firms to get $800m in payouts from Wage Credit Scheme

SMEs will receive the bulk of the payouts, at around 71% of the sum disbursed.

S-REITs are bottoming out

Investors are “tempted” to invest at lower prices, as yields have inched up by around 50bps to around 6%.