Discount brokerage company Charles Schwab Corp said on Thursday (Sept 5) it will close its Singapore office, less than two years after opening it."Charles Schwab Singapore will cease to provide services and will close its office in Singapore. We will no longer open new accounts for prospective clients," it said in a statement.

Voluntary conditional cash offer has been made for San Teh Ltd at $0.28 per share in cash. The offer is by the Kao family.

MAPLETREE Commercial Trust (MCT) will join the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) with effect from Sept 23, replacing Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPHT).

EMS Energy Limited will be delisted from the Singapore Exchange with effect from 9 am on Oct 4, 2019, after it failed to submit a resumption proposal by the Exchange's deadline and did not get approval for a deadline extension.

KEPPEL-KBS US Reit has changed its name to Keppel Pacific Oak US Reit, effective Sept 5.

A SUBSIDIARY of Fortress Minerals Limited, an iron ore concentrate producer, has been served a writ of summons dated Aug 21, 2019, from the Kuala Terengganu Session Court in Malaysia.

DBS Bank Ltd, acting through its Australia branch, has priced a three-year medium-term note issue, offering A$700 million (S$660.7 million) of senior unsecured floating rate notes due Sept 13, 2022.

CAPITALAND business unit The Ascott has opened lyf Funan Singapore – its first co-living property spanning around 121,000 square feet (sq ft) in gross floor area.The nine-storey lyf Funan property comprises 412 rooms across 279 apartments.

Source: SGX Masnet, The Business Times, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, PSR