Citi, the New York-based American banking giant, which has operations in some 160 countries and jurisdictions around the world, has opened what it says will be its "largest wealth hub globally" in Singapore, and unveiled plans to significantly expand its operations there.
Interactive Brokers, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based online discount brokerage firm, has opened an outpost in Singapore, as it continues to grow its international business.
Hong Kong has remained atop the annual Mercer cost-of-living league table for the second year in a row, and Tokyo stayed in second place, as Asian cities yet again proved to be the most expensive locations for companies looking to send their employees overseas to work.
Brown Advisory, a Baltimore, Maryland-based investment firm which has an outpost in London for a number of years, has established a second overseas office in Singapore, as it looks to expand its business across Asia Pacific.
When the Hollywood version of Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel, Crazy Rich Asians, hit the world's cinemas recently, English-language commentators familiar with the multi-cultural Singaporean dialect took note of the "Singlish" words used in the film – such as "lah", which Singaporeans like to add to the end of a phrase for emphasis.
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