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Singapore

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd
    Singapore’s Temasek sours on European companies amid US tariff threats

    Bearish outlook comes a year after state investor opened Paris office and promised to commit $19bn to the region

    A woman walks past a brightly lit Temasek Holdings sign
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Money laundering
    UBS and Citi among nine banks hit with $21.5mn penalty in Singapore money-laundering case

    Scandal involving island-wide seizures of gold bars and luxury cars rocked city-state’s wealth management sector

    A worker climbs over a railing in Singapore
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Standard Chartered PLC
    Standard Chartered hit with $2.7bn lawsuit over 1MDB scandal

    Liquidators still trying to recoup billions of dollars siphoned from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and then laundered

    Standard Chartered signage in Singapore
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Cryptocurrencies
    Singapore crypto crackdown set to spark moves to Hong Kong and Dubai

    Financial regulator says unlicensed exchanges must close by end of month

    Do Kwon sitting in Terraform Labs’ office in Seoul, South Korea, surrounded by desks, screens and office chairs, in April 2022
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    LexUK economy
    The UK has a lot to learn from speedy Singapore Premium content

    Rather than emulate the city state wholesale, policymakers should select from its tool kit

    Buildings in Singapore
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Financial & markets regulation
    UK financial regulators should copy Singapore model, say peers

    British watchdogs are too slow and risk-averse, Lords committee states

    Man jogging in front of Singapore skyscrapers
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    French politics
    Macron touts France as ‘reliable’ partner for south-east Asia

    French president’s visit to Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore will portray Paris as more respectful than US or China

    Emmanuel Macron and Luong Cuong shake hands during a meeting
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    ‘Rich and naive’: why Singapore is engulfed in a ‘scamdemic’

    City-state residents who spend a lot of time online and are naturally compliant with authority are especially vulnerable

    People gather along a waterfront promenade at night with Singapore’s illuminated skyline in the background
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    US-China trade war is pushing Asian nations to pick sides, ministers warn

    Malaysia and Singapore find harder to maintain neutrality as geopolitical tensions grow

    Xi and Anwar shaking hands
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Singapore’s ruling party sweeps to victory as voters opt for stability

    PAP’s 16th consecutive win comes as Donald Trump’s tariffs rattle trade-reliant financial hub

    Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at an election night event early on Sunday
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Trade hub Singapore votes in shadow of Trump’s tariff war

    Prime Minister Lawrence Wong warns of threat to country’s success as he looks to extend ruling party’s dominance

    People sit on benches opposite the parliament building in Singapore
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Inside Interpol’s innovation lab

    On the front line of the escalating global arms race between police and criminals

    Modern, curved building with the Interpol logo on its facade, photographed from a low angle against a partly cloudy sky
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    What abundance can’t achieve

    Growth is worthwhile in itself — but it’s not a cure for populism

    A male jogger runs past the tower blocks of Singapore’s Marine Bay
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Interview
    Singapore warns end of free trade era ‘very hostile’ for small nations

    City-state’s foreign minister fears collapse of world trading system after Trump’s tariffs

    Vivian Balakrishnan sitting at a table
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    DBS Group Holdings Ltd
    DBS and Jack Ma: how a meeting helped change the history of Singapore’s biggest bank

    DBS chief Piyush Gupta says Alibaba founder convinced him the lender needed to change course

    Piyush Gupta
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    InterviewSemiconductors
    Malaysia to crack down on Nvidia chip flows under US pressure

    Trade minister says Washington suspects high-end semiconductors are making it to China despite trade controls

    An Nvidia graphic processing unit
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Automobiles
    Singapore’s luxury car sales plummet after money-laundering scandal

    New Bentley, Ferrari, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce models sold in city-state drop by as much as three-quarters

    White cars are displayed in a well-lit, modern glass-front Vincar showroom
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Pearl Lam: ‘You cannot have great collectors without great museums’

    The trailblazing gallerist on the transformation of Hong Kong’s art world and what’s driving a new class of collectors

    Woman in a bobbed haircut, wearing a loose-fitting, bright green roll-neck sweater, in a lavish apartment filled with colourful abstract paintings, sculptures, vases and high-end furniture
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    The Big Read
    The hidden dangers of family offices

    Private wealth management companies for the super-rich now manage trillions of dollars globally. Critics say they are open to abuse

  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    DBS Group Holdings Ltd
    Singapore’s DBS courts rich Chinese with wealth manager hiring spree

    Expansion comes as other banks grow wary of customers from China after S$3bn money-laundering scandal

    Signage atop the DBS Group headquarters
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Semiconductors
    Singapore probes suspected fraud in sales of US-controlled Nvidia chips

    Arrests made in city-state after raids on 22 locations

    Singapore’s skyline
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    City Developments Ltd
    Singapore property magnate seeks to oust son in boardroom battle

    Kwek family feud between octogenarian chair and CEO offspring leads to share suspension of real estate developer

    City Developments chair Kwek Leng Beng at a news conference in Singapore in February 2019
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Never a dull building: the highs — and lows — of Singapore’s skyline

    The city-state is a lab for world-leading architects where even their less-successful experiments are at least intriguing 

    Foliage flanking a wide path leading to a waterfall tumbling from a glass-domed ceiling in Jewel Changi Airport
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    Singapore fund managers face lengthy licence wait amid surge in applications

    Demand partly driven by Chinese quants expanding abroad after crackdown at home

    A walkway suspended high above the ground and supported by numerous cables is bustling with people enjoying the view against a clear sky
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Monetary Authority of Singapore
    Singapore regulator to inject $4bn into stock market to boost listings

    Authorities also announce tax incentives as part of package designed to revive struggling equity market

    The Singapore skyline
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