Singapore

Not too many people enjoy seeing volatile investment markets. It seems to set a mood of doom and gloom. As red numbers continue to be displayed on investment market information screens or headlined in the media, some people just get downright depressed. But it is not necessarily all doom and gloom.

As the US pushes for stricter regulations to avoid tax evasion, Asian banks are forced to follow implementation and remediation requirements by 2015 - find out what analysts from Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and Ernst & Young have to say.

Standard Chartered’s Giles Elliot says it will surely have a big impact in the market, though not all players can afford the capital charges for extensive memberships in different markets.

Singapore and Hong Kong will be the hardest hit should euro area banks retreat.

DBS Bank opened a POSB bank branch as an experiment of sorts in bringing down the cost of banking and shorten service times.

Banks in Singapore are lobbying against the US' Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or Fatca.

Name your best banking and finance institutions in the inaugural Asian Banking and Finance Wholesale Banking Awards 2012.

One banker’s feast is another’s poison pill it seems.

Citigroup Inc's Asia-Pacific chief executive announced a new management structure with the region's markets head, Rodrigo Zorrilla, promoted to COO.

HSBC and Standard Chartered concur that banks in Asia will have to brace for a depth of regulatory change and evolution of tax regimes this year.

Flat interest margins and low loan growth are expected to take their toll on Singapore’s leading banks.

New software even plans out more efficient truck delivery routes.

More Swiss banks may be looking to Singapore as a favourable place for expansion.

Find out what HSBC’s Ian Banks and Standard Chartered’s Giles Elliot have to say about the challenge of having a system that embeds sufficient functionality in multi market implementations.

RHB Bank Singapore is confident of maintaining growth while expecting more active participation in debt issuance and funding corporate clientele.

Banks will have to intensify their transaction banking platforms as Asian businesses do more cross-border trade, says HSBC's Noel Quinn.