Singapore

Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.23%

The overall sentiment is expected to be fairly cautious.

GLP denies takeover talks

Talks on possible takeover came after its shares jumped.

SIA Engineering slashes shareholders' dividends

DPS was cut to 4 Singapore cents in 1H16.

Singapore banks' profitability under pressure: Moody's

Bad loans jumped to new highs in September.

Building a sustainable enterprise in Singapore

In recent years, the role of corporations has increased in importance due to growing awareness and societal expectations. Besides financial accountability to stakeholders, ever-diversifying responsibilities, profit maximisation and so forth, consumers still expect corporations to demonstrate business sustainability.

Singapore: The next big step towards RBC2

While the Risk-Based-Capital (RBC) framework has served Singapore insurers well over the last 12 years, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is driving a major overhaul on a new capital regime (RBC2) in light of evolving market practices and global regulatory developments.

DBS Bank's innovation in assurance: doing more, and more effectively, with less

In 2014, Jimmy Ng, the head of Group Audit at DBS Bank, implemented the bank's continuous auditing project in Singapore. A year ago, Ng had received an urgent call from Kelvin Lam, Country Head of Taiwan Audit. Lam had requested a higher headcount budget to meet the new audit requirements established by the Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan.

Why a crisis will show how diversified you really are

If you own an ETF that tracks Singapore's STI, some bonds, and an Asia Pacific unit trust, you might think your portfolio is diversified. But it probably isn't.