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Banking on people to grow Singapore's financial sector

Sat, Nov 04, 2017 - 5:50 AM
leejamie@sph.com.sg@JamieLeeBT

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Amid digital disruption, the government has also signalled that financial institutions should not be too quick to get rid of their people, even as technology allows banking processes to be automated.

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