Honouring the best in business
THE Singapore business community came out in force to fete the top 50 privately-held local companies at the Enterprise 50 (E50) Awards gala dinner on Nov 29.
SMEs expect lower turnover in 2018; sentiment weighed down by trade war: survey
MORE small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore are expecting a decline in turnover this year, citing the challenging business environment as the main culprit for the dampened outlook,...
Leaving new staff to sink or swim could leave firms high and dry
TAKE yourself back to the time when you first joined the workplace. Were you thrown to the deep end right away where you were forced to sink or swim, or did you have a "babysitter" of sorts to watch...
London fintech Revolut to launch in Asia-Pacific with regional headquarters likely in Singapore
LONDON-BASED fintech Revolut announced on Friday that it will be launching in Asia-Pacific in the first quarter of 2019, and has already been granted the necessary licences to operate in Singapore...
Expand Construction tops in this year's E50 Awards
EXPAND Construction emerged the overall champion at this year's Enterprise 50 (E50) Awards, sending a clear signal that businesses can still triumph over the challenges in the external environment.
Going places while looking ahead
BUSINESS transformation might sound like a daunting endeavour for many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but it does not always have to be a single big-bang process, according to Alan Lee,...
Hong Kong online lending startup Oriente raises US$105m in initial funding round
HONG KONG-BASED financial services and technology company Oriente announced on Wednesday that it has completed a US$105 million initial funding round, with investments from the founders and a group...
Venture capital firm Cocoon Capital eyes enterprise-tech startups with US$20m fund
SINGAPORE-BASED venture capital (VC) firm Cocoon Capital launched a new US$20 million fund targeting enterprise-tech startups in South-east Asia that are within the deep tech, fintech and medtech...
Singapore SMEs get a leg-up going digital with wholesale trade industry digital plan
MORE than 33,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore can stand to gain from the new wholesale trade industry digital plan (IDP) launched on Monday by Senior Minister of State for...
Singapore headline inflation flat at 0.7% in October, but core inflation inches higher
SINGAPORE'S headline inflation was unchanged in October from September, as private road transport costs again shrank year on year, but climbing electricity and gas prices are still putting the...