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SINGAPORE – A total of 25 promising technology start-ups have benefited from fundraising support from the Economic Development Board (EDB) and Enterprise Singapore’s (ESG) venture arms.…

BEIJING – China’s state media sought to soothe investor nerves amid a stock rout that has pushed the nation’s benchmark equity index to the brink of a bear market, stressing there was no…

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s Nium, a payments start-up serving businesses, became a rare fintech unicorn in the city-state after raising more than US$200 million (S$272 million) in fresh…

SINGAPORE – DBS has made over 12,000 collateral-free loans totalling more than S$6.2 billion to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) since the start of Covid-19, including nearly S$1…

Global investors from Tiger Global Management to Temasek Holdings are reeling after China imposed the harshest curbs yet on its US$100 billion (S$136 billion) private tutoring and online…

SINGAPORE – Households had to shell out more for cars, food, petrol, accommodation and tuition, plus other fees, in the first half of this year as overall inflation rose 1.5 per cent year…

SINGAPORE – Sovereign wealth fund GIC is wary about the global economic outlook, given high asset valuations, inflation concerns and uncertainty over the trajectory of the pandemic. It…

NEW YORK – Wall Street stocks finished higher for a third straight session on Thursday (July 22), edging up following a round of mostly good earnings and mixed economic data. A busy day of…

SINGAPORE – OCBC Bank customers can now view and pay their income and property taxes through the bank’s digital banking platform, OCBC Financial OneView. The bank on Thursday (July 22) said…

SINGAPORE – It might seem contradictory to invest in carbon-emitting polluters while pledging to be an eco-trailblazer, but that’s exactly what Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings is…