Business
Grace Fu Signs Brunei Supply-Chain MOU as Frozen Poultry Exports Expand
Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations Grace Fu signed a supply-chain resilience pact with Brunei as both sides expand frozen poultry trade and essential-goods mapping.
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Keppel Starts Commercial Ops at Tuas Waste-to-Energy Plant
Keppel Integrated Engineering began commercial operations at its Tuas waste-to-energy plant, adding 800 tonnes of daily incineration capacity under a 25-year NEA contract.
Business
MAS Withdraws Merchant-Bank License From Falcon Over Swiss AML Failures
Singapore’s central bank expelled Falcon Bank’s branch, fined it S$4.3 million, and penalized DBS and UBS for lapses tied to 1MDB-era flows as prosecutors arrested the branch manager.
Business
Jasmin Lau Floats Administrative Sanctions When Profitable Employers Skip Payout Norms
Acting Manpower Minister Jasmin Lau said MOM may take administrative action when profitable firms refuse retrenchment payouts, as Q2 retrenchments hit a post-pandemic high.
Business
JPMorgan Trims Singapore Bank Overweight as Long-Bond Yields Threaten Fee Income
JPMorgan cut its overweight call on Singapore banks after a bond-yield spike wiped billions off DBS, OCBC and UOB, warning wealth fees and deposit costs may outrun loan repricing.
Business
Seven Cross-Border Ride-Hail Drivers Caught as LTA Impounds Cars at Land Checkpoints
Land Transport Authority officers seized seven vehicles at Singapore’s checkpoints after tip-offs from taxi and private-hire associations, adding to a year-long enforcement push that has now impounded 254 cars.
Business
UTAC Owners Invite Banks to Pitch Singapore or Nasdaq IPO
Buyout firms Affinity Equity Partners and TPG are sounding out advisers on a UTAC listing that could arrive around mid-2027, Bloomberg News reported.
Business
Financial Services Bill Gives MAS TLAC Power Over DBS, OCBC and UOB
Parliament passed Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Bill 2026, letting MAS impose total loss-absorbing capacity on seven systemically important banks and sharpening resolution powers if a lender fails.
Business
JPMorgan Opens Changi Free-Trade Zone Bullion Vault for Physical Gold Settlement
JPMorgan opened a precious-metals vault inside Changi Airport’s free-trade zone on Wednesday, backing physical settlement for Singapore-traded gold contracts and other allocated bars.
Business
Sheng Siong Maps S$520 Million Sungei Kadut Hub as Mandai Warehouse Nears Capacity
Analysts are repricing depreciation from Sheng Siong’s S$520 million Sungei Kadut hub as the chain nears the capacity ceiling of its Mandai Link warehouse.
Business
StarHub and Keppel Reopen M1 Sale Talks After 2025 Simba Deal Collapsed
Keppel Ltd confirmed talks with StarHub over a potential M1 transaction, reopening a telco divestment path that collapsed when Simba walked away in 2025.
Business
Singtel RE:AI Launches Token-as-a-Service Billing for Enterprise GPU Workloads
Singtel’s RE:AI unit is selling GPU capacity by the token to enterprises that want predictable AI bills without building their own clusters.
Business
Kpler Data Shows Singapore Gasoline Imports Down 62 Percent as Beijing Stops Overseas Refined Sales
China's October halt on refined-product exports outside Hong Kong and Macau is tightening gasoline blending stocks in Singapore just as Asian margins hit record highs.
Business
CapitaLand Investment Falls Nearly 2% Even as Listed Funds Top 2026 GRESB Real Estate Table
CapitaLand Investment shares finished Friday down nearly 2% on the STI even after its listed and private funds posted strong 2026 GRESB scores, as investors weighed fee margins against oil-linked macro risk.
Business
Keppel DC REIT Signs 15MW Solar PPA for Gul Data Centre Annex
Keppel DC REIT signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for a 15MW rooftop solar array on its Gul Way data centre annex, locking in a fixed tariff band as Singapore tightens grid carbon reporting for commercial buildings.
Business
CCS and CASE Widen Unit-Pricing Pilot to 40 Grocery Types From 1 October
FairPrice, Sheng Siong, Prime, Don Don Donki and RedMart join the second CCS-CASE pilot stage covering 40 product types for eight weeks.
Business
Singapore Competition Watchdog Targets Reputifly and 45 Businesses in Record Fake-Review Probe
CCS said about 100 businesses bought fabricated Google and Facebook ratings from Reputifly; 45 have admitted wrongdoing and must publish six-month apologies.
Business
MAS Places 1.45 Billion Dollars With Five EQDP Managers as EQDP Total Hits 5.4 Billion
Monetary Authority of Singapore named Amundi, Franklin Templeton, HSBC Asset Management, M&G and Natixis as the third EQDP cohort, lifting committed capital to S$5.4 billion across 14 managers.
Business
EDB Says August Manufacturing Rose 15.4% Year on Year on Server and Semiconductor Gear
August factory output rose 15.4% year on year but missed economist forecasts as chemicals slumped; electronics and precision engineering carried the print.
Business
SuperReturn Asia Opens at Marina Bay Sands With LP Meetings Across Seven Summits
SuperReturn Asia begins a four-day run at Marina Bay Sands on 28 September, drawing more than 2,500 delegates as Singapore hosts back-to-back private-markets summits.
Business
SGX RegCo Will Require Dividend and Pay Disclosures From January 2027
SGX RegCo will require listed issuers to disclose more on executive pay, dividend policy and investor relations from 1 January 2027, a listing-rule push that puts boardroom decisions on the public record.
Environment
Victoria Delays Poultry Cage Standards by a Year as H5 Bird Flu Lockdown Continues
Victoria has pushed its next caged-egg welfare standards back by 12 months and extended a housing order into October, as H5 avian influenza cases keep climbing across the state.
Business
CSE Global Wins US$150 Million LNG Electrical Contracts Tied to Calcasieu Pass 2
CSE Global has booked US$150 million of LNG electrical and power-distribution work for Calcasieu Pass 2, a 2026-28 order that tests its US Gulf execution and Singapore orderbook.
Business
MTI Says Jurong Petrochems Leave Under a Third of Land for New Plants
MTI told Parliament less than a third of Jurong Island’s roughly 3,000 hectares remains developable for specialty chemicals and low-carbon data centres, explaining why National Day Rally western-island reclamation is not a simple land swap.
Business
Singapore Manufacturing PMI Returns to Expansion on Electronics Orders
Singapore’s manufacturing PMI climbed back above 50 in September on electronics and precision-engineering orders, the Singapore Business Federation’s flash read shows, as MTI-style trade data and semiconductor bookings offset softer domestic construction inputs.
Business
TalkMed Stem Med Opens MOH-Licensed Private Adult Stem-Cell Bank in Singapore
TalkMed Group and StemCord’s Stem Med venture opens Singapore’s first private adult stem-cell bank with MOH-licensed processing for bone-marrow and adipose mesenchymal cells, ISO clean rooms, and long-term cryostorage aimed at future therapy.
Business
Singapore Retrenchments Hit 4,620 in Q2, Highest Since Pandemic Peak
MOM’s second-quarter labour report counted 4,620 retrenchments, or 2.0 per 1,000 employees—the highest since the pandemic peak—while total employment still grew by 11,400 and job vacancies eased to 68,600.
Business
Singapore Q2 Retrenchments Hit 4,620, Highest Since Late 2020 Pandemic Peak
Singapore employers retrenched 4,620 workers in the second quarter of 2026, the Ministry of Manpower said Monday — the highest quarterly total since the 5,640 layoffs recorded in late 2020 — even as the overall unemployment rate held at 1.9 percent and firms cited business reorganisation rather than a broad recession.