Singapore

Singapore’s strengthening dollar is preventing the city-state from becoming an alternative to Hong Kong for renminbi deposits.

Blame it on a sharp pick-up in NPLs and impairments in 1H12.

6 in 10 consumers hate services that are not user-friendly.

But loan growth will thrive.

A 7% contraction looms.

DBS, OCBC, and UOB are in for more disappointing earnings ahead.

Asian banks should not only rely on trading gains, warns RCBC.

ManuRetire Secure is the first of its kind.

The bank's new retail banking director aims to focus on customer segments and needs.

The 2013 HSBC Women’s Champions will take place February 28 to March 3.

Find out which other Asian countries are 'leapfrogging' from basic banking to mobile banking.

We speak of the “global” financial crash of 2008 but in many respects the crash was a trans-Atlantic one; certainly the bank crash was concentrated amongst US and European banks, although the economic impact was transmitted worldwide. If anything, Asian banks had already had their liquidity crisis, back in 1997, and learnt from it. The result was that the conservative liquidity and funding principles currently being laid down under Basel III were already enshrined in Asian banking culture by the time of the Lehman default.

DBS Asia Central at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3 houses the bank’s ‘customer-facing’ units.

CIMB's Viegas says branches should focus solely on serving customers than dealing with lending decision.

It is better to have a slower growth rate due to relatively restrictive regulations than to suffer a ‘subprime’ crisis.

eStatements provide corporate clients with an electronic statement of their accounts via electronic mail.