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Dec 1 morning round-up: 1. Secure ecosystem is key in fast payment access for non-bank e-wallet players bt.sg/4Rf3 2. Q3 corporate profits show signs of recovery amid rebound in economic activity bt.sg/4RfU 3. A rush to…

The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), the largest annual fintech festival in the world, is coming back in December 2020 for the second edition of its SFF x SWITCH event in collaboration with Singapore Week of Innovation…

Broker's take: Look for recovery and resilience plays in S-Reits, says OCBC Its picks for the recovery basket include CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust. bt.sg/4RGT

Nov 30 morning round-up: 1. BT Exclusive: Loss-making private home resales bear watching as stimulus tapers off bt.sg/4Rc9 2. Medtecs strategises to be more than a one-hit pandemic wonder bt.sg/4RcF 3. Covid-19 vaccine e…

DINING OUT: Salted & Hung ups its culinary game Drew Nocente's new tasting menu marks his foray into A-list fine dining. #BTLifestyle bt.sg/4RSy

In art, old is gold: Three exhibitions of late or late-career Singapore artists, from Georgette Chen to Sujak Rahman, are worth making time for. #BTLifestyle bt.sg/4RS9

Design by nature: Spaces with a calming botanic feel are fast becoming the norm. #BTLifestyle bt.sg/4RSC

The Raffles Conversation: For the love of science Leading the region from lockdown in Dublin, Merck BioPharma’s new Asia Pac VP Liz Henderson tells about the challenges – and opportunities – in supplying medicine to the…

#BRUNCH: Body Blow Having trouble booking your usual fitness class? While that might make it seem as if gyms are bouncing back from circuit breaker shutdowns, fitness players tell us this is hardly the case. We look at t…

Nov 27 evening round-up: 1. Billionaire Ray Dalio set to open family office in Singapore bt.sg/4RSU 2. HDT scraps electric-taxi business in Singapore on 'debilitating' Covid-19 hit bt.sg/4RS3 3. Singapore's service secto…

Hot stock: Biolidics jumps 22.6% on news of Covid-19 test kit distribution Shares in the medtech firm rallied for a third consecutive day, boosted by optimism that Biolidics will soon distribute test kits in Indonesia, S…

Jumbo to buy 75% stake in Kok Kee Wanton Noodle; posts full-year S$8.2m loss The proposed acquisition will enable Jumbo to diversify its income streams away from its current dominant concepts, which revolve around full-s…

Nov 27 morning round-up: 1. BT Exclusive: Clean energy pivot will yield green jobs, but time needed to fill them bt.sg/4Ric 2. Lee Foundation unit sells Haig Road property bt.sg/4Rip 3. DBS gets sizeable India branch net…

Broker's take: UOBKH initiates 'buy' on Nanofilm due to unique tech, superior margin Nanofilm, the first tech unicorn on Singapore's bourse, has a "strong competitive advantage and warrants a premium to its peers", the b…

Singapore industrial production sees surprise 0.9% fall in October Weighed down by a decline in electronics output, last month’s figure confounded economists' expectations of a 7.3 per cent growth. bt.sg/4RJy

India central bank's nod for DBS's LVB takeover paves way for branch expansion: analysts The merger will add 563 branches - mostly in southern India - to DBS India's current 34 branches, over two million retail accounts…

Nov 26 morning round-up: 1. BT Exclusive: Logistics players ramp up for booster shot from Covid vaccines bt.sg/4RJZ 2. Negative bond yield arrives in Singapore with UOB's 1b-euro issue bt.sg/4RJ4 3. BT Exclusive: Allianz…

Hot stock: Top Glove sinks to 2.5-month low on workers' Covid-19 outbreak, factory shutdowns The Malaysian government has ordered a full probe into Top Glove's working and housing conditions, after more than 2,400 of its…

Broker's take: Maybank KE downgrades DBS, OCBC, UOB to 'sell' on 'unsustainable' rally The trio has climbed more than 20 per cent since end-October, benefiting from the recovery trade catalysed by news of successful Covi…

Hot stock: Singapore Airlines gains nearly 17% on the week Its share price jumped 8.2 per cent or S$0.36 to S$4.77 in early trade. The bulk of the volume came from large trades - each valued at more than S$150,000. bt.sg…

BT Exclusive: High Court dismisses Singapore firm's bid to release funds to pare Wirecard 'loans' Court documents revealed that US$8.63 million from oCap Management had been seized by the police’s Commercial Affairs Depa…

Nov 25 morning round-up: 1. Healthtech use surges amid pandemic; now to put the brakes on costs bt.sg/4Rkx 2. Sea's Forrest Li credits Singapore in Businessman of the Year win bt.sg/4Rkf 3. Investors would be better serv…

PODCAST: This week's episode looks at making better sense of the current market conditions during this Covid-19 era. #btpodcasts #moneyhacks Visit bt.sg/moneyhacks for more Money Hacks episodes. Subscribe, listen and rat…

Broker's take: Maybank KE upgrades Singapore, Malaysia tech sectors to 'positive' The bullish outlook comes on the back of the 5G rollout and the ramp-up of semiconductor components and equipment. Tech subsectors such as…

Nov 24 morning round-up: 1. BT Exclusive: STB monitoring commission fees on SingapoRediscovers Vouchers booking platforms bt.sg/4ayG 2. Sharp rebound in 2021 won't take economy to pre-Covid levels: MTI bt.sg/4aC9 3. Virt…