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OCBC continues with digital transformation throughout its bank, but will not set up digital bank
OCBC Bank's digital transformation is bearing fruit with more customers transacting digitally and at the same time is helping to drive costs down, said its chief executive Samuel Tsien.
StarHub to move its services to fibre networks from July next year
The telco on Thursday said technical experts will take care of the end-to-end installation and activation of fibre services for customers, which include providing home networking advice like ideal wireless router placement and fibre TV cabling solutions.
DesignSingapore Council to come under EDB to help drive business innovation and growth abroad
IN a move to help local companies tap innovation in design and expand overseas, Singapore's national agency for design - the DesignSingapore Council - will be transferred from the Ministry of Communications and Information to the Economic Development Board (EDB) from April 1 next year.
FLT buys Dutch freehold logistics property for 25.36m euros
The property, located at Mandeveld 12 in the city of Meppel in the Netherlands, is a modern, freehold logistics facility with a gross lettable area (GLA) of 31,013 square metres (sq m), with a long WALE (weighted average lease expiry) of about 14.9 years.
Paperless property sales booking now a reality in Singapore thanks to Showsuite
NEW home sales platform Showsuite has successfully launched Singapore's first fully digitalised sales booking platform, which could save as many as hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper for developers and property agents for a single project.
Corporate earnings
The STI today
Singapore shares end higher on Thursday SINGAPORE shares built on gains made on Wednesday, with the Straits Times Index up 42.05 points or 1.4 per SINGAPORE shares built on gains made on Wednesday, with the Straits Times Index up 42.05 points or 1.4 per cent to close at 3,060.85 on Thursday.
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International
China 2024 growth outlook raised to 4.8%, deflation risk lingers
Luxury sector outlook clouded by China’s slow recovery
‘We aren’t going anywhere’: TikTok CEO expects to defeat US restrictions
TikTok artists and advertisers to stay with app until ‘door slams shut’
Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban Bills after Republican battle
UAE announces US$544 million for rain repairs, says lessons 'learned'