The Business Times

🎙BT Future of Finance: The future of banking requires true digitalisation (Ep 3) What does true digitalisation look like? In order to become a digital bank of the future, one needs to understand the customer of today an…

Civil servants to receive 1.1-month year-end bonus; junior officers another S$700 The year-end bonus takes into account the easing economic growth, September's slight uptick in unemployment and the rise in retrenchments…

Big Four accounting firms on hiring spree as demand booms for professional services The firm expects to sift through more than three million resumes this year.

Economists see monetary policy tightening ahead despite easing inflation in October “One month of easing inflation does not mean the inflation energy has been vanquished. (We) probably will still see ups and downs in the…

Latest Singapore’s Treasury bill offers 3.9% in yield The T-bill received S$11.9 billion for an allotment of S$4.8 billion – the highest in the year to date for Treasury bills of this tenor.

#BTExplains: The fine print in Singapore’s new regulations for platform work In light of new regulations, Singapore platform workers are set to get same levels of CPF, injury coverage as employees. We take a closer look…

Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as prime minister after days of political impasse After waiting for more than 20 years, Anwar Ibrahim is now Malaysia's 10th prime minister.

BR Metals tops this year’s E50 Awards 50 of the most enterprising local privately-held companies that contributed to Singapore's economic development were recognised at the 28th edition of the E50 Awards.

In Qatar, beer-starved football fans go on a quest for the elusive beer “To deny an Englishman a beer is to starve an Englishman,” bemoans an England fan.

Gig-economy players raise concerns as Singapore unveils new worker protections The potential exclusion of some third-party logistics and taxi street-hail platforms could lead to price and market distortion, says the Digi…

CAD launches probe into crypto platform Hodlnaut, directors The police received multiple reports alleging that Hodlnaut and its directors had made false representations relating to the company’s exposure to a certain dig…

Singapore’s official 2023 growth forecast gloomier than expected: analysts Even if Singapore enters a technical recession, it is likely to be a “short, shallow, and an orderly one”, says an economist.