Your perception and use of money will change with age. Here’s what you can expect as you enter your 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond. Why do many Singaporeans regret not saving money after a certain age? Why does budgeting become harder as you get older? One of the strange facts …
What Every Singaporean Should Know About Personal Finance Management
Personal finance may seem like a daunting subject if you are a young adult who has just started earning your first income. There are many foreign aspects of personal finance that you have to pick up, such as management of your CPF (Central Provident Fund), income tax payments, investments, etc. …
3 Interesting TEDTalks On Finance You Need To Watch
TEDTalks are influential videos on a wide variety of topics, launched by a media organisation, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), which operates on the tagline of “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to share their perspective on a topic often through the medium of storytelling. They …
Tips on Managing Your Finances In Our Cashless Society
As the use of digital payments become more prevalent and our society slowly transforms into a cashless world, it has become increasingly difficult to manage our personal finances. This is due to financial abstraction, which is the notion that when money becomes more of an idea and less tangible, it …
5 Factors To Consider Before Investing In P2P
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending is a major source of alternative investments for investors looking to earn interest returns from financing business loans. It is often attractive to investors due to its higher interest rate returns and the autonomy investors have over which business they want to finance. However, as with every …
How Industry Transformation Maps Can Help SMEs
Industry Transformation Maps (ITMs) were launched by the Singaporean Government in 2016 with the purpose of enabling companies, particularly SMEs, to stay ahead of the curve and navigate the evolving business environment. Budget 2019 has revealed that after the implementation of ITMs, productivity (real value-added per hour worked) has increased …
9 Words You Need to Have in Your FinTech Dictionary
With FinTech becoming prevalent in every industry, it’s imperative to pick up some FinTech terms to understand this new language of business. We have compiled a list of 9 words that you need to have in your FinTech dictionary to help you ease into picking up these business jargons! Fintech …
FinTech Apps to Boost Your Personal Finance Journey
Life in a fast-paced society such as Singapore means that we often have barely enough time to keep on top of our work, much less our finances. However, it is all too easy to slip into the black hole of overspending when you are not managing your finances. Hence, we’ve …
How SMEs Can Be Green And Cut Cost
Being green helps improve your brand image, and is an increasingly important point to consider given that customers are more aware of their environmental footprint. As the world aligns with one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by the United Nations (UN) to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, there …
How SMEs Can Turn Invoices Into Cash
Do you know any business that is facing cash flow issues? Here is how to identify businesses that can potentially benefit from our Invoice Financing solutions. What are invoices & what sort of businesses issue invoices? Invoices are usually issued by a company as official notice for its customer to …