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And Mediacorp launches a new Chinese digital portal.

Its main and junior markets accounted for 61% of ASEAN’s IPO proceeds.

Around 80% of its products at the 12,000 sqft space are smart home-compatible.

5G trials will be conducted at the PSA Living Lab in Pasir Panjang Terminal in Q3.

It will remain listed on the SGX-ST after 11.36% of shareholders voted against its delisting.

The agreement also includes both firms’ subsidiaries SilkAir, Scoot, and Firefly.

This comprises an aggregate amount of $350m in bank loans and a $20m revolving credit facility.

The lease could see Frasers Commercial Trust’s FY 2020 NPI and DPU up 1.5%.

Its proceeds will fund the expansion of its franchise network and establishment of a new central kitchen in Malaysia.

They spend $624 on average for in-store travel-related transactions.

UOB led the gains after its stock grew 1.79%.

And UOB poaches HSBC’s Singapore head of retail business banking.

It eyes to raise $8.81b from June 2018 to end-2019. Grab secured $406.55m (US$300m) boost from global investment management firm Invesco. This puts the Singaporean superapp on track to meet its aim to raise $8.81b (US$6.5b) in total capital between June 2018 and the end of 2019. Invesco’s additional investment in Grab has hit $952.69m (US$703m) in total. Earlier in 2019, Invesco successfully completed its acquisition of OppenheimerFunds, which first invested $546.14m (US$403m) in Grab in July 2018. “We have been closely watching Southeast Asia and have every confidence in Grab’s ability to unlock new opportunities across on-demand mobility, delivery and financial services in the region,” said Justin Leverenz, team leader and senior portfolio manager (Invesco Emerging Markets), Invesco.

Together, the three sites can yield about 1,545 residential units.

The risk-reduction technique enables participants to lower capital costs and reduce open positions of derivatives.

They claimed that they have become less impulsive. Almost nine in 10 (89%) of Singaporeans have become less impulsive in their spending behaviour compared to two years ago, according to a study by data consultancy firm Kantar. This is in line with their regional counterparts in the Asia Pacific (89%). The study also found that Singaporeans prefer brands that are not new to them, with 97% saying that their most recent purchase are brands familiar to them. Moreover, 64% of them said that they ‘knew a lot’ about the brands. Kantar further noted that over half (52%) of people in Singapore said that their mobile is central to discovering new brands. “Platforms like Instagram are now being used as a central ‘discovery’ channel in many markets, with people scrolling through to find new brands in the same way that they would a physical magazine,” Kantar said in a report. But despite the influx of advertising in various media platforms, 46% of Singaporeans said that the ads they see are not relevant to them. “Consumers in Asia today are far more discerning, making decisions based on a layered understanding of the brand, built up over numerous interactions,” Anita Rao Kapur, regional head of brand for the Insights Division at Kantar, explained.