Singapore News » Southeast News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: Visa Announces Asia Pacific Leadership Appointments to Scale Value-Added Services and Southeast Asia Growth
Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced two senior leadership appointments in Asia Pacific, reinforcing its focus on scaling Value-Added Services (VAS) and accelerating growth in ...
News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: Tiny island, immense capital: Singapore leads ASEAN’s billionaire wealth map
Singapore’s Marina Bay skyline at dusk. The city-state’s small physical footprint has not limited its financial reach. Singapore has become one of Southeast Asia’s most concentrated centers of private ...
News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: Singapore is the only Southeast Asian city on a ranking of centi-millionaires—and that could be good for its economy
Singapore ranks high among cities in terms of the cost of living—and it’s also very popular with rich people. A report by Henley & Partners, using data from New World Wealth, released Tuesday ranked ...
News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: Why Singapore is the only Southeast Asian country in Pax Silica, the U.S.’s new AI ‘inner circle’
With its new Pax Silica Declaration, Washington has picked its most trusted partners in the AI sector: An array of close U.S. allies, including Australia, the U.K., and Israel. Yet despite deepening ...
News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: Singapore and China join forces with new green finance taskforce
Sustainable finance garners significant attention from global investors and policymakers. In recent years, Europe has led the way in regulating sustainable finance. But East Asia is catching up as ...
News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: Southeast Asia’s ShopBack moves into personal finance with its first acquisition
Singapore-based e-commerce startup ShopBack came on the radar when it raised $25 million last November, and now the company is making its first acquisition. ShopBack said today it has picked up Seedly ...
News Singapore » Southeast » Finance: COP29 Finance Goal Falls Short of Addressing Southeast Asia’s Needs
The conference put more money on the table for developing countries, but this will not solve the “chicken-and-egg” dilemmas facing the region. COP29’s new financing goal of $300 billion each year by ...