Singapore

Standard Chartered and ADB to extend additional credit to Asian microfinance institutions

StanChart will service a US$150m loan portfolio while ADB will share the risk for up to US$75m.

Singapore and Hong Kong banks may refocus on corporate lending

RoRWA on mortgages becomes increasingly less attractive.

Complexity in treasury management the 'new norm' in 2013

Guess what the 9 top priorities for Asian corporate treasurers are?

DBS earnings growth pegged to hit 6.5% in 2013

It's the highest among Singapore's banks.

Guess which clients UOB tagged as its 'sweet spot'

They have investible assets of SGD350K-2m.

Find out what the loan growth drivers of DBS, OCBC, and UOB are

But overall net interest income is feared to slow in 2013.

This is why 2012 was an 'unusual' year for Standard Chartered

Weaker revenues but cost control compensating well.

OCBC's earnings momentum to come off in 2013

Net interest income growth of around 2.5% is expected.

Here's why middleware is vital for Asia's financial services sector

Businesses today face a host of unavoidable challenges that need to be tackled in order to achieve core business objectives, including lowering costs, increasing revenue and enhancing competitive advantage. In the financial services sector, these demands are further exacerbated by the unique challenges facing the industry, not the least of which is the inevitability of race-like conditions and the need to capture, analyze, and act on information as soon as it appears.

Singapore banks' earnings growth to be a measly 1-2% in 2013

Check out how DBS, OCBC, and UOB fared in 4Q12.