Banks expand cash management radar
Extension of such services to capture smaller firms partly reflects tighter competition in transaction banking
Singapore
BANKS are more aggressively extending cash management and other transaction services that are better associated with large multi-national firms, to smaller companies - a move that partly reflects tighter competition in transaction banking.
This also comes as smaller firms are rising in the ranks themselves, building their South-east Asian operations with Singapore as the regional base, and starting to demand such services.
Citi expects double-digit growth over the next three years in its middle-market segment, Lin Hsiu Yi, head of commercial banking in Singapore, told BT.
"We want it to become a meaningful part of the …
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