Singapore builders could be the next cause for bank pain
INVESTORS bemoaning Singapore banks' fraught relationship with oil-services companies may be overlooking another brewing area of trouble - building and construction firms.
Property developers in the city-state seem fine but their contractors are hurting after almost five years of real-estate curbs. Suppliers are getting worried.
Some 60 per cent of respondents to a survey by global credit insurance group Atradius said they expected customers to become less timely about payments this year. Average days payable outstanding, a measure of how long a company takes to reimburse its suppliers, has risen to 104 from six two years ago, based on data from 16 publicly traded firms in the industry tracked by Bloomberg.
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