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Published in Venture Views

·2 days ago

Analysis: Media assets & strategic narrative can SGX corporate ecosystem, Singapore’s finance centre

Amid the developments shaping stock exchanges into major forces in global finance and equity capital markets, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) evolve a strategic narrative and develop media muscle to further amplify its equities unit, as well as other businesses. …

Singapore Exchange

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Analysis: Media assets & strategic narrative can drive SGX corporate ecosystem, Singapore’s finance…
Analysis: Media assets & strategic narrative can drive SGX corporate ecosystem, Singapore’s finance…
Singapore Exchange

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Published in Venture Views

·Dec 19, 2021

Stockholm’s Startup Secret? An Entrepreneur-Finance-Growth Nexus

The 2010s have seen Stockholm’s ascent as a major European startup up and development of a finance centre perceived as a contender to London. More notably, it has evolved a sustainable entrepreneur-finance-growth nexus (EFG nexus) that offers insights and inspiration for policymakers, investors and entrepreneurial centres globally. Besides more obvious…

Equity Market

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Stockholm’s Startup Secret? An Entrepreneur-Finance-Growth Nexus
Stockholm’s Startup Secret? An Entrepreneur-Finance-Growth Nexus
Equity Market

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Published in Venture Views

·Nov 20, 2021

Market maker fund the missing piece for Temasek-backed 65 Equity Partners?

Singapore’s 65 Equity Partners (65EP) establishing a market maker fund (MMF) can catalyse further liquidity in Singapore equities. It also mutually reinforces existing efforts to augment the domestic equities market. Reports of Singapore special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listing applications by Temasek-linked entities — French asset manager Tikehau Capital, Vertex…

Capital Markets

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Market maker fund the missing piece for Temasek-backed 65 Equity Partners?
Market maker fund the missing piece for Temasek-backed 65 Equity Partners?
Capital Markets

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Published in Venture Views

·Aug 2, 2021

Russia a land of opportunity for Singapore entrepreneurs & enterprises

Foreword: I would like to extend thanks to my collaborators, Ms. Daria Luzina, Program Manager, Sistema Asia (Singapore) and Mr Yogeindran Thiayagarajah, , Regional Group Director, Russia CIS, C&E Europe & Central Asia, Enterprise Singapore. They contributed extensively to the research underpinning this article. Singapore entrepreneurial ventures should explore the…

Singapore

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Russia a land of opportunity for Singapore startups & enterprises
Russia a land of opportunity for Singapore startups & enterprises
Singapore

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Published in Venture Views

·Jun 20, 2021

Can Singapore be Asia’s tech capital?

Singapore’s policymakers have driven a coherent campaign promoting Singapore as an Asian technology centre, in addition to its role as a global finance centre. But does the city-state have sustainable fundamentals in place across scale, scope and ecosystem economies to establish itself as Asia’s pre-eminent technology capital? Despite a number…

Public Policy

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Can Singapore be Asia’s tech capital?
Can Singapore be Asia’s tech capital?
Public Policy

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Published in Venture Views

·May 25, 2021

Capital market-economic growth nexus essential to Singapore’s finance centre, entrepreneurial hub ambitions

Note: I first posted this piece on LinkedIn. It retreads prior developements from previous pieces and amalgamates in from a new angle, about the lack of a finance-growth nexus in Singapore. In the post-COVID world, Singapore’s efforts to sustain its commercial-finance centre and entrepreneurial hub ambitions, underwritten by significant economies…

Economic Policy

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Capital market-economic growth nexus essential to Singapore’s finance centre, entrepreneurial hub…
Capital market-economic growth nexus essential to Singapore’s finance centre, entrepreneurial hub…
Economic Policy

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Published in Venture Views

·Apr 28, 2021

Ecological sustainability will underwrite Indo-APAC post-pandemic recovery

Ecological sustainability will underpin the post-COVID 19 economic recovery in Southeast Asia and the broader Indo-Asia Pacific (Indo-APAC). …

Ecological Sustainability

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Ecological sustainability will underwrite Indo-APAC post-pandemic recovery
Ecological sustainability will underwrite Indo-APAC post-pandemic recovery
Ecological Sustainability

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Published in Venture Views

·Apr 15, 2021

Analysis: Is Nanofilm Technologies 2020 IPO a tech turning point for Singapore?

The initial public offer (IPO) of Nanofilm Technologies on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) may represent the same inflection point that the listing of Xero Technologies did for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The listing of Xero in late 2012 laid the foundation for the ASX to establish its brand as…

Capital Markets

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Analysis: Is Nanofilm Technologies 2020 IPO a tech turning point for Singapore?
Analysis: Is Nanofilm Technologies 2020 IPO a tech turning point for Singapore?
Capital Markets

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Published in Venture Views

·Mar 6, 2021

Can Singapore become Asias’ dual listings hub?

With Singapore seeking to revive its lacklustre equities market, it may have the potential to forge a niche as a dual listings node for corporates looking to tap Asian capital markets and internationalise. If the secondary listing of NYSE-listed AMTD International on the Singapore bourse in April 2020 is any…

Capital Markets

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Can Singapore build appeal as dual listings hub for foreign enterprises?
Can Singapore build appeal as dual listings hub for foreign enterprises?
Capital Markets

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Published in Venture Views

·Feb 26, 2021

Singapore CPF reforms can revive economy, equities market

Singapore can revive its economic engine and equity markets with Central Provident Fund (CPF) reforms. Tapping CPF cash to induce positive feedback loops between Singapore’s pension assets and capital markets can economically revive the domestic economy and mitigate the risks of income disparity in the post-COVID world. Successful financial centres…

Capital Markets

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Singapore CPF reforms can revive economy, equities market
Singapore CPF reforms can revive economy, equities market
Capital Markets

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