The Business Times

🏆 BT team wins Experiential Treat prize at SGX Orb Awards Congratulations to our BT team! Their winning work - “The rise of the Singapore CSO” which delves into the wave of appointments of chief sustainability officers…

#BTOpinion: Non-binary gender disclosures: Indirect benefits outweigh ‘wokeness’ discomfort The overall trend is that investors are seeking more disclosures on diversity metrics from companies, despite backlash that thes…

Toa Payoh site for 775 units expected to draw firm interest, cautious bids A market watcher said developers will be drawn to this site, given the limited new private home supply in the area and the appeal of Toa Payoh as…

MAS bans ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng for life He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March this year, after being convicted in the US in 2022 for conspiring to launder billions of dollars misappropriated from 1MDB betw…

Asean’s economic integration needs to be extended to digital and green sectors: PM Lee Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the digital and green economies are new growth areas, and urged leaders to move qu…

Why China hasn’t unleashed the ‘bazooka’ option to rescue its economy Beijing isn’t pulling out a “bazooka” stimulus package like it did during the global financial crisis in 2008-09, or even when the pandemic hit in 202…

Singapore firms stick to their guns as they continue to eye China for growth Entrepreneur Roy Kee is taking advantage of the lower cost of doing business as the yuan slump continues.

Tharman’s presidential victory not a harbinger of next general election His resounding victory suggests that voters did indeed take a non-partisan view – which makes it hard to make any assumptions about sentiment ahead…

Are low fees a kiss of death for robos and advisory firms? What can other wealth firms with low-fee or commission-free models learn from the failure of robo advisery MoneyOwl?

Lucky 13: Singapore listcos that post 5-year dividend growth of over 10% Should you be loading your portfolio with names from this list of dividend growers? Only if those dividends are sustainable, analysts say.