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Digital consumers power up Singapore's big three banks
22 Jul 19
 DBS and OCBC generate twice or thice as much revenue from digital retail and SME customers than traditional customers, on average.
Retail property investment sales jumped 52% to $961m in Q2
18 Jul 19
Chinatown Point was sold for $520m or $2,450 psf NLA.
Headline inflation could average 0.9% in 2019
18 Jul 19
Sluggish retail sales and the appreciating SGD have limited price gains.
NODX down 17.3% in June
17 Jul 19
Electronic NODX contracted 31.9% YoY.
Landlords cash in on Singapore's coworking boom
15 Jul 19
Landlord-operated brands include csuites by Lendlease which occupies 72,000 sqft, whilst Guoco Midtown will set aside up to 97,500 sqft of their...
Here's how firms spend their #insta budgets
15 Jul 19
Instagram-focused budgets are something that wasn't seen one or two years ago, said marketers.
Can air taxis take flight in Singapore's skies?
15 Jul 19
Passenger air vehicles are having trouble taking off because of the city’s good traffic conditions and regulations.
How The Great Room is riding on Asia's co-working wave
15 Jul 19
It targets established, value-sensitive corporates that make up the fastest growing segment in Asia.
Love, Bonito to open largest physical store in Funan
15 Jul 19
The shop will have instagrammable spots, an express e-commerce counter, and on-demand stylists.
Singapore GDP growth to fall to 0.9% by end-2019 as technical recession risks loom
12 Jul 19
MAS might soon intervene and ease monetary policy.
Billion-dollar office deals buoy property investments in Q2
11 Jul 19
The biggest deal was AEW’s $1.36b purchase of Chevron House.
Hospitality sector's RevPAR to grow 2-3% in 2019
10 Jul 19
RevPAR for luxury hotels grew 3.3% YoY to $185 for 5M19.
Singapore's fintech invasion has no end in sight
8 Jul 19
About 43% of fintechs in Southeast Asia choose Singapore as their home as growth prospects in the city strengthen.
Can retail underdogs take a bigger bite of Singapore's online grocery pie?
8 Jul 19
Despite only holding less than 7% grocery market share in 2017, RedMart and FairPrice will dominate the market in few years time.
What Singapore got right in urban mobility
8 Jul 19
It also has some points it can improve on, according to global policy experts.
Singapore's infrastructure gap expected to be one of the world's smallest by 2040
8 Jul 19
By then, the country’s infrastructure gap is tipped to hit US$400m compared to the global gap of $19t.
Virtual banks pose threat to Singapore's small and foreign lenders
5 Jul 19
However, the tech upstarts hardly pose a challenge to the Big Three.
Flexible working operators to snap up 550,000 sqft of office space by end-2019
3 Jul 19
There are 141 such players located across Singapore.
REITs and tech firms drive Singapore's M&A frenzy
2 Jul 19
Over 10 companies that have been privatised or in the process of being bought out YTD.
Property investment sales up 30.7% to $5.85b in Q2
1 Jul 19
Heavyweight office deals accounted for 47.1% of overall sales.
REITs eyed to boost Singapore's IPO landscape
1 Jul 19
The sector accounted for almost half of the US$36.16b raised since 2009.
eBay to bridge more SMEs to 179 million-strong buyer base
1 Jul 19
It partnered with the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies to train SMEs in cross-border trade.
Singapore joins digital banking race with five licenses up for grabs
1 Jul 19
The five licenses are split into two full digital and three wholesale.
Singapore's prime office occupancy costs climbed 17.3% in Q1
27 Jun 19
Tightening vacancy and strong absorption drove rents up to $154.84 psf.
Expat living is cheaper in Singapore than Hong Kong: study
26 Jun 19
A cup of coffee in Singapore costs about $6.77, compared to a $9.48 cup of coffee in Hong Kong.
CBD Grade A supply hit 25.1 million sqft in Q1
24 Jun 19
There were 8.7 million sqft of supply in Raffles Place/New Downtown.
Will virtual banks threaten Singapore's big three?
23 Jun 19
Newcomers still have to create significantly large funding and capital bases to contend with incumbents.
Singapore trails behind China and Saudi Arabia in AI healthcare adoption
20 Jun 19
Less than a third of Singaporeans have access to their digital health records.
One in 10 firms forecast 0-5% revenue declines in 2019
19 Jun 19
Only 37% of businesses expect moderate growth between 5-15%.
Singapore overtakes Hong Kong in cross-border commercial property investments in Q1
18 Jun 19
Investment from the city rose 23% to US$21.8b in the 12 months to Q1 2019.
Luxury homes buck residential sales decline in May
18 Jun 19
Sales have come to a relative standstill, with the exception of homes priced above $2,000 psf.
Industrial property sales jumped 27.6% to $1.3b in Q1
17 Jun 19
Major transactions include factories in Tuas South Avenue and Banyan Drive being sold for $585m and $227.5m, respectively.
Singapore's 2019 GDP growth forecast cut to 2.1%: MAS survey
13 Jun 19
The manufacturing as well as wholesale and retail trade sectors are tipped to contract 0.2% and 0.3% respectively.
Businesses still bearish for Q3 2019
10 Jun 19
The business optimism index fell from +10.58ppt to +6.91ppt over a year.
Singapore trails Hong Kong, Japan in ease of doing business
6 Jun 19
It ranks sixth in Asia as the burden of additional compliance requirements pull Singapore down.
Singapore beats Hong Kong as Asia's top treasury location
3 Jun 19
More multinationals still prefer the Lion City with 4,200 regional headquarters based in Singapore, the largest in APAC.
Residential unit sales up 0.1% in Q1 as luxury home transactions drive gains
30 May 19
Market launches in the core central region hit a five-year high at 363 units.
Food factories are eating up Singapore's industrial space
30 May 19
Over 630,000 sqft of food factory space came on-stream in 2019 YTD.
Dividend yields of companies linked to Asia's wealthiest family empires outpace benchmark STI
27 May 19
Their dividend yields hover between 7.1-7.7% compared to 4% for the STI.
LTA mulls rail link between north and northeast Singapore
27 May 19
The Land Transport Master Plan 2040 also unveils plans to extend the Downtown and Thomson-East Coast Lines.

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