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SINGAPORE (Mar 26): Baker McKenzie is forecasting for Asia Pacific’s financial merger and acquisition (M&A) deals to hit US$122.7 billion ($160.9 billion) this year, coming in only after Europe and North America at the projected deal values of US$195.7

SINGAPORE (Mar 15): Two-fifths (40%) of local retail banking customers in Singapore are ready to stop or cancel their services with a bank on the grounds of poor customer engagement, according to a recent study commissioned by customer experience & call c

SINGAPORE (Feb 15): As of last Friday, US price-to-book (P/B) valuations have fallen from a high of 3.48 times to 3.18 times or 3% above the historical average, according to a recent strategy report by Credit Suisse’s equity research team.

SINGAPORE (Feb 7): While prevention technologies have managed to deter identity fraud activities such as card skimming, criminals are now beginning to steal identities or even constructing entirely new ones to obtain real credit cards from banks.

SINGAPORE (Jan 29): Small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore appear to display an appalling lack of interest in taking their businesses beyond the city state, according to QBE’s annual survey of more than 400 local SME business leaders.

SINGAPORE (Jan 25): The fate of the world lies heavily in what happens in the 85% of the world's population that lives outside of North America and Europe, particularly Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

SINGAPORE (Dec 28): Global investors should beware the temptation to simply compare a valuation metric for one region with that of another, according to global investment manager Schroders.

SINGAPORE (Dec 12): Southeast Asia’s internet economy has experienced unprecedented growth over the past year to exceed Google-Temasek initial research projections, with there to be over 330 million active monthly internet users by end-2017 – a 70 mil

SINGAPORE (Nov 23): The National University of Singapore (NUS) today launched BLOCK71 Suzhou, a new initiative aimed at providing support for Singapore entrepreneurs and technology startups looking to explore potential business opportunities in China.

SINGAPORE (June 27): Trendlines Group, the Catalist-listed innovation commercialisation company based in Israel, has announced that its Bayer Trendlines Ag Innovation Fund will be establishing a new company, ABI-Ag, to conduct specific research in the fie