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Often pay only the minimum sum on your credit cards? Avoid the 'too many, too complicated, too late' trap, advises our Head of Cards Business, Vincent Tan, in this The Business Times personal finance column.
With mortgage rates at rock bottom, there’s only one way to go - and that’s up. Our OCBC Financial Wellness Index 2020 found 55% of millennials worried about not being able to afford a house for their own stay, and 38% have difficulties paying their mortgages on time. Our Head of Home Loans, Mei Ling Lee shares how homeowners can keep TDSR in check, in this instalment of The Business Times Money Playbook column.
Should investors shun bonds on rising yields? In this 7th instalment of The Business Times Money Playbook column, our Executive Director of Investment Strategy, Vasu Menon shares how investors should stay diversified, and on course, because markets remain volatile.
This US$250 million sustainability-linked loan comes on the back of Manulife US REIT's inaugural green loan which we extended last year, after developing their green loan framework. Our head of global corporate banking, Elaine Lam, said, "Green buildings are the building blocks of sustainable cities, so Manulife US REIT’s mission is one that we are excited to support as we continue to work with our customers to do well and do good.”
Chatbots, as well as tools to help detect suspicious transactions, are some of the in-house capabilities which our AI Lab has been developing using artificial intelligence.
Digital adoption may have spiked, but balance enquiries and cash withdrawals still make up 80% of our ATM transactions. We’re rolling out face verification for balance enquiries on 8 ATMs, before extending it to cash withdrawals across our whole ATM network progressively from June. Will face verification replace your ATM card? GovTech Singapore #SingPass #faceverification
Our OCBC RoboInvest service lets you choose where to invest (do you like broad investment sectors like tech, healthcare or consumer goods?). It’s just like picking out a playlist on a music streaming site – your choice. No fuss.
Some businesses may be putting off their digital transformation plans in the hope that things will soon return to how things were like before Covid-19 struck. But brick-and-mortar stores are facing an existential crisis, and it’s time to embrace the digital push because there’s no turning back, writes our chief economist Selena Ling in her commentary for Channel NewsAsia. Thankfully, the Budget offers more help for such companies to do so.
We’re charging into the year of the ox with a new, ‘green’ partnership. Charge , an operator and provider of electric vehicle charging solutions, has plans of installing 10,000 EV charging points islandwide by 2030 and our strategic partnership will give them a boost. This will contribute to the Singapore government’s revised target of 60,000 EV charging points by 2030 which was announced last week as part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030.
