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#BTOpinion: Betting on a new social trend: A love story While BT's Ben Paul may not have found "the one" via dating apps, he does find opportunities, however, to invest in the long-term growth of some of the world's most…

📊November 2 results round-up: 1. SIA Engineering Q2 net profit up 87.6% to S$19.7m from stepped-up flight activities 2. Great Eastern Q3 net profit up 30%

MAS to commit S$150m for FSTI scheme over next 3 years; to consult on ending corporate cheques by 2025 MAS will be consulting on ending the use of corporate cheques by 2025 with the use of such cheques already declining…

5 Questions with Kelvin Teo, fintech man on a mission Startups and crises often go hand in hand. Kelvin Teo, co-founder of fintech company Funding Societies, has been through many of such sticky situations since starting…

#BTOpinion: Companies’ nonchalance toward SGX queries on pay shows why mandatory disclosure may be necessary Disclosures are becoming increasingly necessary in the global competition for investors’ dollars, as large inst…

Millennials send Vietnam’s investing scene into overdrive Thousands of retail investors flocked to the capital markets for the first time during the pandemic, sending Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index soaring 55% from 2020 to…

New money inflows to Singapore jump 59% to a record S$448b in 2021 Singapore’s efforts to build an international wealth hub are paying off as the city enjoys a post-Covid resurgence, attracting investors drawn to its sta…

🎙PODCAST: Using product to deliver you the news better What does product have to do with value creation? What does problem solving and delight have to do with the news? What IS ‘product’ to begin with? So many questions…

#BusinessofTime: Ulysse Nardin: Still innovative and disruptive Science nerds and watch aficionados looking for the ultimate watch, will get a real kick out of following the sun in real-time - thanks to the Blast Moonstr…

Concerns swell as Thailand’s telco giants prepare for US$7.3b merger The merger is drawing criticism from consumer protection groups, economists and opposition politicians for creating a duopoly in Thailand’s telco marke…

DBS raises interest rates on its Multiplier account, after similar move by OCBC DBS raised the maximum interest rate on the Multiplier account to 4.1% a year, up from 3.5% previously.

Singapore Savings Bond offers all-time high 1st year and 10-year average interest rates The Singapore Savings Bond is offering an all-time high first year and 10-year average return of 3.26% and 3.47% respectively for th…

Elon Musk, who runs four other companies, will now be Twitter CEO Replying to a tweeted question on what was “most messed up at Twitter”, Musk replied that “there seem to be 10 people ‘managing’ for every one person codi…

Private equity chases rich Chinese trying to escape market chaos “China’s wealthy are very interested in increasing their asset allocation to PE investments, partly to stay away from choppy secondary markets,” says a wea…

#BTOpinion: Smoothing the way for O&M merger must also be about paving a green highway for Sembmarine? Will taking a unit off Keppel’s hands put Sembmarine in a position to outmanoeuvre Keppel in the green energy space i…

📊November 1 results round-up: 1. Parkway Life Reit net property income up 0.1% in Q3 2. Capitaland Ascendas Reit posts 5.4% rental reversion in Q3 3. Japfa 9M FY2022 net profit down 59% to US$46.3 million

Market value of Singapore stocks plunges 6.1% in October despite banks’ rally Most stocks, especially Reits, continued to be held hostage by the spectre of US central bank’s interest rate hikes.

Li Ka-shing’s skyscraper is 21% empty as Hong Kong vacancies hit record Empty premium office space - or the so-called Grade-A stock - has tripled in three years to an all-time high of a combined 11.9 million square feet…

Talent investor Entrepreneur First leaves Singapore, consolidates globally “That is the strategy and the overall direction in which the company wants to head and unfortunately, the size of the local talent pool in Singap…

#BTOpinion: Firm property prices are a silver lining as rising interest rates batter listed property plays The equities market may be more than adequately pricing in the headwinds from higher interest rates – provided de…