As the world grapples with pressing challenges of sustainability and food security, innovative solutions are needed to address these complex issues. One promising concept gaining traction is the integration of data centres and agriculture in the form of floating organic data centres (ODCs). A 2019 study by Ahmad Karnama of…

With the NSE IX-SGX GIFT Connect now fully operational as of July 2023, allowing trading of USD-denominated GIFT Nifty derivatives, the logical next step is for SGX to explore the development and implementation of a depositary receipt (DR) link between Singapore and the bourses of Mumbai, the National Stock Exchange…

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. …

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…

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…

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’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…

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…

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