Singapore

Asia | 9 Jan 13

Standard Life, which last year formally opened an office in Singapore in preparation for marketing investment products there, today unveiled a suite of three basic products that it plans to market specifically to affluent Asian and Indian clients as well as to the more traditional, English-speaking expatriate sector.

Asia | 8 Jan 13

Singapore’s financial regulator and central bank has said the country will participate in the International Monetary Fund’s Financial Sector Assessment Programme in 2013.

People Moves | 7 Jan 13

Tomas Urbanec is the new chief executive officer of Prudential Singapore following the retirement of Kevin Holmgren who has plans to return to the USA.

Asia | 3 Jan 13

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has reprimanded Aon Consulting (Singapore)Pte, part of the London-based insurance and consulting giant Aon plc, for violating regulations covering financial advisers.

Profiles & Comment | 29 Dec 12

Singapore, like Hong Kong, is continuing to benefit from the uncertainty and instability elsewhere in the world, while at the same time struggling to cope with such side-effects of this success as inflation, currency appreciation and a shortage of affordable housing. Helen Burggraf reports.