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GameStop plans to launch an NFT marketplace The company is also in talks with crypto and blockchain companies about which tokens could be used on the NFT marketplace, which it hopes to launch by the end of this year. It'…

iFast to acquire 85% stake in UK-incorporated BFC Bank for £40m The acquisition, which will enable the group to add a digital bank to its fintech ecosystem, is part of iFast's 5-year plan to have a global business model.…

Australia's most populous state to reinstate some Covid-19 curbs: report New South Wales (NSW), the worst affected Australian state from the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, has registered record daily infecti…

Malaysia's top anti-graft official to cooperate with regulator after share trading allegations Azam Baki, the chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), has faced calls to explain allegations…

Carousell said to be in US$1.5b SPAC deal talks with L Catterton The US-listed SPAC is backed by L Catterton, the US$30 billion buyout firm minority-owned by Paris-based luxury goods company LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuit…

UBS, StanChart tighten work rules in Hong Kong on Omicron threat The protective measures come months after business life largely returned to normal as the city's fourth wave of infections subsided. The emergence of Omicr…

Samsung Electronics Q4 profit jumps on server chip demand, foundry margins The world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker estimated fourth-quarter profit at 13.8 trillion won (S$15.6 billion). This missed a previou…

Indonesia's ban on coal exports likely to have 'serious repercussions' on already challenging market: observers The ban comes even as the coal market has been grappling with instability. Prices had surged to record highs…

North Korea says it test-fired hypersonic missile The missile was test-fired on Wednesday and carried a "hypersonic gliding warhead" that "precisely hit a target 700km away", the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA)…

Tikehau's Pegasus Asia lodges prospectus for S$150m SPAC It is the second player to lodge a prospectus for a SPAC listing on the Singapore Exchange, just hours after Vertex Technology Acquisition Corporation, the vehicle…

#BTExclusive: DWS, Hines poised to buy ramp-up industrial building for S$93.8m The two firms, from Germany and Houston respectively, are purchasing the 9-storey Bukit Batok Connection at a price of about S$248 per square…

US to revise Singapore travel advisory after Covid data flap At issue was a lack of testing findings the CDC previously obtained from aggregator Our World in Data, according to a separate statement from CDC to Bloomberg…

OCBC to continue with physical tokens as it weighs fraud risks to customers Francisco Celio, OCBC head of group corporate security, said that unlike other SMS phishing scams, the recent attack is "particularly aggressive…

Short-seller who bet against Wirecard wagers Tesla is overpriced Is Tesla's stock overvalued? The guy who accused Wirecard of fraud long before their game was up is now calling out the electric vehicle maker for having a…