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Wall Street's momentum machine faces a Middle East stress test

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Denitsa Tsekova |Emily Graffeo

Denitsa Tsekova and Emily Graffeo / BloombergSat, Jun 14, 2025 • 01:38 PM GMT+08 • • 5 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. It’s the kind of geopolitical flashpoint that might once have triggered a full-blown market meltdown: Israeli warplanes struck Iranian nuclear sites, Tehran vowed revenge — then followed through. Oil spiked.
Epicsoft Asia gains more than 90% of Ban Leong’s shares, intends to exercise right of compulsory acquisition

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nicole Lim

Nicole LimThu, Jun 12, 2025 • 09:37 PM GMT+08 • • 1 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. The company offering to take Ban Leong Technologiesprivate has announced that it has successfully acquired more than 90% of the total number of shares in the company. As such, Epicsoft Asia, which now owns 92.92% of the total number of shares in Ban Leong, will proceed to exercise its right to compulsorily acquire the shares of the dissenting shareholders.
IFA says Cordlife partial offer not fair and reasonable, shareholders recommended to reject offer

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nicole Lim

Nicole LimWed, Jun 11, 2025 • 07:48 PM GMT+08 • • 2 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. Novus Corporate Finance, the independent financial advisor (IFA) appointed to oversee the partial offer of a 10% stake in Cordlife Group by Medeze Group, is of the opinion that the financial terms of the partial offer are not fair and reasonable.
Former Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean resigns from GIC’s board, days after announcement of joining Temasek

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nicole Lim

Nicole LimTue, Jun 10, 2025 • 07:15 PM GMT+08 • • 1 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. Former Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean has resigned from GIC’s board of directors, and as chairman of the GIC International Advisory Board effective June 30, according to a release by the sovereign wealth fund on June 10. Teo served on the GIC board for 14 years, and was first appointed as director in December 2010, and chairman in April 2015.
Ossia International’s Goh brothers appoint W Capital Markets as new IFA overseeing privatisation

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nicole Lim

Nicole LimTue, Jun 10, 2025 • 06:56 PM GMT+08 • • 1 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. Ossia International’s Goh brothers have appointed a different independent financial advisor (IFA) to advise the privatisation of the company via a voluntary unconditional cash offer of 16 cents per share. The IFA, which was previously Asian Corporate Advisors, is now W Capital Markets.
Singapore Airlines taps on generative AI to speed up digital product development

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nurdianah Md Nur

Nurdianah Md NurTue, Jun 10, 2025 • 04:35 PM GMT+08 • • 2 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. Singapore Airlines will be using generative AI to speed up digital product development, following a successful pilot project with global tech consultancy PALO IT. The national carrier tested a new AI-first software development methodology developed by PALO IT, called Gen-e2, within one of its digital product squads.
SingPost completes disposal of stake in Shenzhen 4PX Information and Technology after unwinding cross-holdings

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nicole Lim

Home News Company in the newsNicole LimMon, Jun 09, 2025 • 08:33 PM GMT+08 • • 2 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. Singapore Post (SingPost), by way of unwinding crossholdings with Alibaba Group Holdings, has completed the disposal of its interest in Shenzhen 4PX Information and Technology, held by Quantium Solutions International (QSI), now a subsidiary of SingPost.
SGX Group reports 143% y-o-y increase in Korean won futures for May; SDAV rose 6% y-o-y

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Nicole Lim

Nicole LimMon, Jun 09, 2025 • 07:21 PM GMT+08 • • 2 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. The Singapore ExchangeGroup saw Korean won futures increase 143% y-o-y to a monthly record of 38,294 lots in May from the unprecedented volatility in the Taiwan dollar which spilled over to emerging Asia currencies, according to its May market performance report. The daily average volume (DAV) of the SGX KRW/USD FX Futures grew to $685 million notional.
Japanese investors offload most German bonds since 2014

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Masaki Kondo

Masaki Kondo / BloombergMon, Jun 09, 2025 • 06:29 PM GMT+08 • • 2 min readFollow us on Facebook and join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. Japanese investors sold the largest amount of German government bonds in a decade in April as the securities rebounded from a selloff the previous month spurred by fiscal concerns.
DBS tops US$100 bil market value in first for Singapore banks

2 weeks ago | theedgesingapore.com | Chanyaporn Chanjaroen |Gabrielle Ng

DBS Group Holdings Ltd. became the first bank in Singapore to top US$100 billion ($128.65 billion) in market value, helped by a softer US currency that amplified gains on the local stock market. Southeast Asia’s top lender gained as much as 0.8% in Singapore trading on Monday to hit $45.50. The firm is trading at a market capitalisation of $129 billion, extending its gains this year to 4.3%. The advance in DBS’s share price in US-dollar terms was driven by the weaker greenback.