Singapore banks tokenised deposits

DBS, OCBC or UOB: Which Singapore Bank Could Win From Tokenised Deposits?

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DBS, OCBC and UOB have just completed live Singapore-dollar interbank transactions using tokenised deposits on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. The bigger investment question is not whether blockchain works — it is which bank could eventually capture the economics of always-on, programmable banking. Singapore’s three largest local banks have just crossed an important line in the development

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DBS Faces a S$1.3 Billion 1MDB Lawsuit. What Could It Really Cost Shareholders?

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The S$1.298 billion claim against DBS looks alarming. But for shareholders, the crucial question is not the size of the lawsuit — it is whether the claim eventually becomes a real financial liability. A S$1.298 billion lawsuit against Singapore’s largest bank would normally be enough to make investors sit up. But there is an important

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Singapore retirement portfolio

How Should Singapore Investors Protect Retirement Portfolios From Inflation? 5 Assets to Consider

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Your Retirement Portfolio Can Lose Money Without Falling in Value For a retiree, one of the most dangerous investment losses is the one that never appears on a brokerage statement. A portfolio containing S$1 million in cash, fixed deposits and low-risk products can remain worth exactly S$1 million for years. Yet if living costs rise

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Should Investors Buy the Straits Times Index? Why Singapore’s STI Matters More Than Its 60-Year History

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The STI Is Not Really a Bet on Singapore. That May Be Its Biggest Advantage The Straits Times Index has just turned 60. That sounds like a reason to look backwards. For investors, it may actually be a reason to look forward. The most important thing about the STI today is not that it contains

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Singapore banks tokenised deposits

Should Investors Buy SGX Stock? The Singapore Exchange May Be a Global Risk-Management Play

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Should Investors Buy SGX Stock? The Bigger Opportunity May Have Little to Do With Singapore IPOs For years, investors have judged the Singapore Exchange by a metric that increasingly tells only half the story. Where are the blockbuster IPOs? It is an understandable question. A stock exchange is, after all, supposed to be a marketplace

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SGX Mid-Caps: Can High-ROE Stocks Deliver Better Returns Than Singapore’s Blue Chips?

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Singapore’s Mid-Caps Are Splitting Into Winners and Losers. ROE Shows Where the Opportunity May Be Singapore’s stock market has an underappreciated problem. It is not simply that small-cap companies are struggling. It is that the further investors move down the market-cap ladder, the less useful the market index becomes as an investment guide — and

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Should Investors Bet on Singapore’s Asset Management Push? Why MAS Is Playing a Bigger Game Than Tax

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The real investment question: Can Singapore turn tax incentives into a durable financial moat? Singapore has spent decades building itself into a financial centre. But the next phase of that strategy is more demanding. It is no longer enough to attract banks, trading desks and wealthy individuals. The more valuable prize is investment decision-making itself:

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DBS, OCBC or UOB: Which Singapore Bank Stock Could Win the Next Decade?

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DBS, OCBC and UOB continue to deliver strong profits even as falling interest rates put pressure on traditional lending margins. That creates a bigger question for investors: if all three Singapore banks remain highly profitable, which one has the strongest earnings engine for the next decade? The answer may increasingly depend on what happens beyond

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Grab Atome acquisition

Should Investors Buy UOB Stock? What Its Landmark Euro Covered Bond Says About Funding Strength

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UOB Just Got a Very Strong Vote of Confidence From Bond Investors — But Is That Enough to Buy the Stock? A bank issuing debt is hardly unusual. A bank issuing €1 billion of covered bonds and attracting almost €4 billion of final demand is more interesting. UOB’s latest transaction matters not because it gives

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Singapore REITs

SORA Is Near Multi-Year Lows, the Fed May Still Hike: Why the S-REIT That Gets Hurt Isn’t the One You’d Guess

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Singapore borrowing costs remain unusually low even as US rate-hike expectations have returned. For S-REIT investors, the first risk may not be higher interest expense — it may be valuation compression. And the REIT that looks most exposed isn’t necessarily the one with the most floating-rate debt. Why should an investor care? The latest market

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