small medium enterprises (SMEs)

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 5):  With Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat to deliver this year’s Budget Statement in Parliament on Feb 19, Deloitte has released its wishlist for Budget 2018.

SINGAPORE (Jan 2): DBS Bank and Chubb, the world’s largest publicly-traded property & casualty insurance company, have launched a 15-year regional general insurance distribution partnership agreement in Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

SINGAPORE (Dec 18): Managing delays in customer payments remains as a key finance-related challenge for Singapore's small-medium enterprises (SMEs) even with easy access to debt financing, according to recent findings from the 2017 SME Financing Surv

SINGAPORE (Nov 15): StarHub and Prudential have established a partnership to jointly launch a blockchain-based digital trade platform for small medium enterprises (SMEs), Fasttrack Trade (FTT), in 1Q18.

SINGAPORE (Oct 4): A majority of small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore are unlikely to qualify for business financing, according to recent data from Linkflow Capital.

SINGAPORE (Aug 16): The Infocomm and Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) today signed seven memoranda of intent (MoIs) with Singtel, M1, StarHub, DBS, OCBC, UOB and Hong Leong Finance under IMDA’s SMEs Go Digital programme.

SINGAPORE (Aug 1): DBS has partnered New Zealand cloud accounting platform Xero to launch an API-driven bank feed integration service with the aim of providing the bank’s small medium enterprise (SME) customers a better grasp of their cash flow with

SINGAPORE (May 2): CIMB Research and OCBC Investment Research have reiterated their “hold” calls on UOB Bank, raising their respective target price and fair value estimates to $21.20 from $20.37 and $21.66 from $20.55 previously.

SINGAPORE (March 24): Using technology creatively to manage the business back-end can enable even the smallest start-ups to compete on the regional and even the global stage.