Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore recently claimed: “I do hope when the fever has gone away, when the crash has happened, it will not undermine the much deeper, and more meaningful technology associated with digital currencies and blockchain." Singapore’s relationship with cryptocurrencies has been a torrid one.

New tax framework outlined in Singapore Budget 2018 next step in enhancing country’s position as a fund management and domiciliation hub.

Traditionally, visibility and scrutiny of a company’s tax position was limited to a small number of interested parties who used disclosures in annual reports to garner what insight they could.

There are many in the industry today, who believe that disruption came almost like a tsunami, out of nowhere and swept away all existing trends, processes and practices in place.

If you are a white collared professional dismayed after years of hard work clocking 15-hour days, 6 days a week, you might start to wonder what the most effective way to manage your personal investment portfolio is — and the answer might be a lot more accessible than you think.

Singapore remains a key financial centre of the world, where nearly 99%1 of the 216,900 business in Singapore are small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Blockchain is becoming an increasingly common buzzword locally, particularly within Singapore’s Fintech industry.

It was February 2010, four months after Piyush Gupta joined DBS Bank (DBS) in Singapore as its CEO.

It wasn’t too long ago when there was a rallying cry of how banks were not doing enough to try and beat smaller FinTech start-ups.

Singapore climbed the rankings to be the second most cloud ready environment in Asia, according to the latest edition of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) Cloud Readiness Index.

What exactly is a tax haven?

As Asia and Singapore becomes increasingly digitised, processes get automated and several industries are disrupted by technology, in particular, finance.

The recent spate of negative corporate news in Singapore – bond defaults and manpower retrenchment – has led banks to become more cautious about lending.

Electronic payments account for 69%1 of consumer transactions in Singapore – just slightly higher than the global average of 65%.

With Singapore continuously strengthening its position as a global financial hub – now ranked third in the current Global Financial Centres Index – government bodies like the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) are increasingly looking to technology to not only support and expedite growth in the financial sector, but also to protect it.

In 2014, Jimmy Ng, the head of Group Audit at DBS Bank, implemented the bank's continuous auditing project in Singapore.

The loud roar of engines revs up the final quarter of 2016 – as Singapore turns up its glitz and glamour, in conjunction with the 9th Formula One Singapore Grand Prix season.

DP Information Group had recently conducted a credit survey on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore and found that SMEs are tightening their credit terms.

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