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Why Keppel REIT Just Went All In On Australian Retail In FY2025

The 47.9% Leverage Illusion: Why Keppel REIT’s Sydney Pivot is a Calculated Power Move Introduction: The REIT Landscape in 2025 As we navigate the fiscal landscape...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

ESR-REIT’s High-Spec FY2025 Pivot Pays Off

The 10-for-1 Shift: 5 Surprising Truths Hidden in ESR-REIT’s FY2025 Results The global trade landscape faced significant headwinds in 2025 as US-announced trade tariffs dominated headlines and injected volatility into international commerce. For industrial REITs, these "shifting sands" required a balance between operational resilience and...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why Maruwa’s Q3 FY2025 Profit Dropped Despite AI Boom

The Silicon & Ceramic Pulse: 5 Surprising Realities from Maruwa’s Q3 Results Introduction: The Invisible...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Pickleball, Tech Hubs & The Great Dividend Comeback – KORE US REIT FY2025

The New Geography of the American Office For the better part of three years, the...
Environment

Veolia guarantees water savings to shield Thailand’s US$70b data hub

Overview: Veolia is targeting Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor to address escalating water scarcity risks driven...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Keppel Infrastructure Trust Trades Oil Storage For Subsea Cables In FY2025

The S$9 Billion Lifeblood: How Infrastructure is Quietly Powering the AI and Energy Revolution Infrastructure...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

How ASTI Holdings Flipped The Script In Q3 2025

The $1.3 Million Turnaround Introduction: A Tale of Resilience and Red Ink For stakeholders of ASTI...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

CapitaLand India Trust Pivots From Offices To Data Centers In FY2025

The Data Infrastructure Gambit: Inside CapitaLand India Trust’s Record Distribution Surge In a global economy...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why Keppel DC REIT’s FY2025 Signals The Rise Of Infrastructure Sovereignty

The Digital Backbone: Why Your Digital Footprint is the New Real Estate Gold When you interact with a generative AI prompt or stream high-definition content,...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

The 24% Rent Jump Inside Parkway Life REIT’s FY2025

Introduction In an era of global economic shifts and fluctuating market sentiment, healthcare real estate...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why The World’s Geriatric Fleet Is Nam Cheong’s Secret Weapon

Unlocking the OSV Cycle For more than a decade, the offshore support vessel (OSV) industry...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why This Tiny Lab Is Outpacing Global Giants

The $1.5 Trillion Green Transition’s Secret Weapon In the high-stakes theater of the modern economy,...
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How GuocoLand De-risked Growth While Sales Slipped In 1H FY2026

Introduction In the current real estate climate, market sentiment often fluctuates between cautious optimism and...

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“AI Customers” demand data, not emotion: Businesses must adapt

A new type of customer is quietly reshaping the marketplace—and it doesn’t feel a...
Financial Services

Standard Chartered fast-tracks cross-border banking to avoid delays in businesses’ global expansion

Overview: Standard Chartered Bank is transforming international banking by drastically reducing account setup time from...
AI

Global wealth shake-up: Advisers trapped by lag-time as crypto demand soars

Overview 62% of Singaporean clients are comfortable with AI supported advice, but 30% of advisors...
Financial Services

Visa pushes stable coin payments mainstream with seamless conversion technology

Overview: Visa is driving seamless stable coin spending across APAC by integrating conversion into its...
AI

Visa tackles cross-border payment challenges with AI-enabled solutions

Overview: Visa announced AI-enabled payments and stablecoin settlements at the Singapore FinTech Festival to strengthen...

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Bridge Data Centres targets APAC expansion with US$2.8B financing and 1.2GW expansion plan

Overview: Bridge Data Centres is one of the largest data center platforms in Asia Pacific,...
AI

Visa tackles cross-border payment challenges with AI-enabled solutions

Overview: Visa announced AI-enabled payments and stablecoin settlements at the Singapore FinTech Festival to strengthen...
Financial Services

Solving cross-border cash control with bank APIs and multi-currency accounts

Overview: Finmo partnered with Standard Chartered to launch Global Currency Account capabilities for multi-currency management. The...

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AI

Bridge Data Centres targets APAC expansion with US$2.8B financing and 1.2GW expansion plan

Overview: Bridge Data Centres is one of the largest data center platforms in Asia Pacific,...
AI

Generative AI disrupts content marketing as experts urge shift to GEO strategies

Oct 1, 2025. Singapore - At the CMA Asia event in Singapore, industry leaders...
Financial Services

Solving cross-border cash control with bank APIs and multi-currency accounts

Overview: Finmo partnered with Standard Chartered to launch Global Currency Account capabilities for multi-currency management. The...
Financial Services

Visa combats fraud with newly-added AI capabilities

Visa Leverages AI to Reduce False Positives and Fight Scams Across Southeast Asia Overview: Visa is...
AI

Journalism faces AI disruption but experts say survival is certain

Overview: AI disruption is reducing news click-through rates by up to 30%, forcing media to...
AI

Visa tackles cross-border payment challenges with AI-enabled solutions

Overview: Visa announced AI-enabled payments and stablecoin settlements at the Singapore FinTech Festival to strengthen...

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Why The World’s Geriatric Fleet Is Nam Cheong’s Secret Weapon

Unlocking the OSV Cycle For more than a decade, the offshore support vessel (OSV) industry has existed in a state of clinical survival. Following the catastrophic oil price collapse of 2014, the sector entered a period of brutal capital discipline. Operators pivoted to "survival mode,"...

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SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why Keppel REIT Just Went All In On Australian Retail In FY2025

The 47.9% Leverage Illusion: Why Keppel REIT’s Sydney Pivot is a Calculated Power Move Introduction:...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

ESR-REIT’s High-Spec FY2025 Pivot Pays Off

The 10-for-1 Shift: 5 Surprising Truths Hidden in ESR-REIT’s FY2025 Results The global trade landscape...

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SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Globe Life’s Strong Momentum Continues In Q3 2025

Here Are The 5 Most Surprising Takeaways From Globe Life's 100-Page Quarterly Report Corporate financial...
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GSH Corporation Limited: First Half 2025 Financial Results

GSH Corporation Limited experienced an increase in revenue and operating profit during the first...

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Cruise tourism surge tests Singapore’s port capacity

Overview: Cruise passenger throughput in Singapore has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, hitting 1.85 million last year and driving strong demand for marine and port services. Local firms like ICF Group report nearly 30% growth in refurbishment projects, leveraging digital tools and prefabrication to speed up ship...

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Cruise tourism surge tests Singapore’s port capacity

Overview: Cruise passenger throughput in Singapore has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, hitting 1.85 million last...
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Hotels turn to generative AI to tackle service delays and boost guest satisfaction, says STB

Overview: Hotels face operational strain when staff shortages coincide with peak guest arrivals. Language barriers can...

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Hotels turn to generative AI to tackle service delays and boost guest satisfaction, says STB

Overview: Hotels face operational strain when staff shortages coincide with peak guest arrivals. Language barriers can...
Tourism

Singapore Tourism Board teams up with IndiGo to address connectivity gaps for Indian travelers

Overview: Singapore Tourism Board signed a year-long agreement with IndiGo to strengthen travel between India...

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Kaspersky expands cybersecurity education to tackle rising digital risks

Overview: Kaspersky is expanding its cybersecurity education to address the rising digital risks that come...
Education

NIEC strikes difficult balance between tech and pedagogy

The National Institute of Early Childhood (NIEC) is steering preschools towards a careful middle...

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Education

Kaspersky expands cybersecurity education to tackle rising digital risks

Overview: Kaspersky is expanding its cybersecurity education to address the rising digital risks that come...
Education

NIEC launches three-tier framework to boost early childhood leadership

The National Institute of Early Childhood (NIEC) has unveiled a structured leadership development framework...

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NIEC to plug education inclusivity gap for children with diverse needs

Singapore is strengthening inclusive early childhood education with a “3 R’s” approach: revamp, ready, and reach out. This is to equip teachers and ensure children with diverse needs are supported in every classroom. Rathi Devi Balachandran, Lead Curriculum Specialist at NIEC, said the institute is...

Financial Services

Financial Services

“AI Customers” demand data, not emotion: Businesses must adapt

A new type of customer is quietly reshaping the marketplace—and it doesn’t feel a thing: AI customers. As AI agents increasingly act as autonomous...
Financial Services

Standard Chartered sees AI-enabled talent as critical to step up national competitiveness

David R. Hardoon, AI Senior Executive, Standard Chartered.
AI

Visa tackles cross-border payment challenges with AI-enabled solutions

Overview: Visa announced AI-enabled payments and stablecoin settlements at the Singapore FinTech Festival to strengthen...
Financial Services

Malaysia reassures of 2026 resilience with diversified exports, says BNM

Overview: This year brought tariff, uncertainty, and other central banks’ policy shocks, yet they were met with poise and confidence. The response hinges on Malaysia’s intrinsic strength—an economy highly diversified by products and export destinations. No single country accounts for more than 15% of trade, and exports...
Financial Services

Container shipping targets US$48B debt capacity to fast-track logistics pivot, says Standard Chartered

Overview: Container shipping is pivoting towards becoming logistics giants, requiring a recalibration of capital structure. Investments in logistics are driving valuation uplift, reducing earnings volatility, and...

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Container shipping targets US$48B debt capacity to fast-track logistics pivot, says Standard Chartered

Overview: Container shipping is pivoting towards becoming logistics giants, requiring a recalibration of capital structure. Investments...
Financial Services

Singapore tops global list of costliest cities for luxury living

Overview: Singapore remains the most expensive city for living well, driven by high costs in...

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BNM fast-tracks digital asset innovation hub to shield retiree funds

Overview: The interview highlights the challenge retirees in Malaysia face in safeguarding and allocating retirement...
Financial Services

Malaysia reassures of 2026 resilience with diversified exports, says BNM

Overview: This year brought tariff, uncertainty, and other central banks’ policy shocks, yet they were...

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Financial Services

“AI Customers” demand data, not emotion: Businesses must adapt

A new type of customer is quietly reshaping the marketplace—and it doesn’t feel a thing: AI customers. As AI agents increasingly act as autonomous buyers on behalf of humans, businesses are being forced to rethink how they sell, serve, and connect. These digital shoppers,...

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SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why Keppel REIT Just Went All In On Australian Retail In FY2025

The 47.9% Leverage Illusion: Why Keppel REIT’s Sydney Pivot is a Calculated Power Move Introduction:...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

ESR-REIT’s High-Spec FY2025 Pivot Pays Off

The 10-for-1 Shift: 5 Surprising Truths Hidden in ESR-REIT’s FY2025 Results The global trade landscape...
Environment

Veolia guarantees water savings to shield Thailand’s US$70b data hub

Overview: Veolia is targeting Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor to address escalating water scarcity risks driven...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Keppel Infrastructure Trust Trades Oil Storage For Subsea Cables In FY2025

The S$9 Billion Lifeblood: How Infrastructure is Quietly Powering the AI and Energy Revolution Infrastructure...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why Maruwa’s Q3 FY2025 Profit Dropped Despite AI Boom

The Silicon & Ceramic Pulse: 5 Surprising Realities from Maruwa’s Q3 Results Introduction: The Invisible...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Pickleball, Tech Hubs & The Great Dividend Comeback – KORE US REIT FY2025

The New Geography of the American Office For the better part of three years, the...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

How ASTI Holdings Flipped The Script In Q3 2025

The $1.3 Million Turnaround Introduction: A Tale of Resilience and Red Ink For stakeholders of ASTI...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

CapitaLand India Trust Pivots From Offices To Data Centers In FY2025

The Data Infrastructure Gambit: Inside CapitaLand India Trust’s Record Distribution Surge In a global economy...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why Keppel DC REIT’s FY2025 Signals The Rise Of Infrastructure Sovereignty

The Digital Backbone: Why Your Digital Footprint is the New Real Estate Gold When you...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

The 24% Rent Jump Inside Parkway Life REIT’s FY2025

Introduction In an era of global economic shifts and fluctuating market sentiment, healthcare real estate...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why The World’s Geriatric Fleet Is Nam Cheong’s Secret Weapon

Unlocking the OSV Cycle For more than a decade, the offshore support vessel (OSV) industry...
SGX-LISTED COMPANIES

Why This Tiny Lab Is Outpacing Global Giants

The $1.5 Trillion Green Transition’s Secret Weapon In the high-stakes theater of the modern economy,...
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