Singapore

Singapore’s private banking services sector by the numbers

Government says sector has created good quality jobs.

4 things banks need to know about DDoS attacks

To cope with an increased number of large distributed denial of service attacks, banks must not only have plans in place - they should consider a broad set of defensive tools that combine on-premise technologies and cloud-based scrubbing services.

Major senior management reshuffle at MAS

Shake-up aimed at strengthening the central bank’s leadership.

Analyst worried over UOB's property exposure

Housing loans account for 28% of UOB’s portfolio.

RMB offshoring gathers pace

Over the past couple of years, the issuance of offshore RMB bonds has soared, with levels expected to reach the equivalent of 360 billion yuan this year. To address the growing interest from international investors, a number of markets - in particular Taiwan and Singapore - have established offshore RMB centres in an attempt to capture a share of this lucrative business.

An over-engineered finance industry has gone too far

The other day I conducted a simple statistical experiment. I calculated the “value-at-risk” exposure for an hypothetical investment portfolio consisting of just one bond holding.

Singapore sovereign wealth fund ready to invest more

GIC is the world's fourth largest sovereign wealth fund.