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Toku soars on Catalist IPO debut
[SINGAPORE] Customer experience platform Toku, Singapore’s second listing of the year, made its trading debut on the Catalist board on Thursday (Jan 22).The counter opened at S$0.265 per share,...
Circles.Life to increase platform fee from S$0.30 to S$0.70 from Feb 1, drawing criticism online
Published Thu, Jan 22, 2026 · 08:30 AM[SINGAPORE] Customers of local telco Circles.Life will need to pay almost double in platform fees from Feb 1, with the move drawing criticism...
US House panel advances bill to give Congress authority over AI chip exports
Published Thu, Jan 22, 2026 · 07:25 AM[NEW YORK] The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly advanced a bill that would give Congress power over...
JPMorgan’s Dimon warns of ‘economic disaster’ for US as Trump backs credit card rate cap
Published Thu, Jan 22, 2026 · 06:30 AM[DAVOS, Switzerland] JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned on Wednesday (Jan 21) that a proposal to cap credit card interest rates would...
Customer experience platform Toku’s IPO 31.9 times subscribed
[SINGAPORE] Customer experience platform Toku’s initial public offering (IPO) was 31.9 times subscribed, the company said on Wednesday (Jan 21).The IPO drew 1,115 valid applications for its public tranche...
UOB’s Sydney branch prices A$2 billion in five-year notes
They comprise A$750 million in floating-rate notes and A$1.25 billion in fixed-rate notes[SINGAPORE] UOB’s Sydney branch has priced a combined A$2 billion (S$1.7 billion) in two tranches of five-year...
Wall Street opens higher after rout, Trump speech in focus
Published Wed, Jan 21, 2026 · 10:56 PM[NEW YORK] US stocks staged a modest recovery on Wednesday (Jan 21) after the sharpest equities sell-off in three months, as investors...
Asian equities hold ground as Japan bond jitters ease, after Wall Street slide
Spillover from Japan’s debt market moves appear limited as regional investors turn to policy signals from Davos[SINGAPORE] Asian equity markets remained on a stable footing on Wednesday (Jan 21),...
Asian equities hold ground as Japan bond jitters ease; Wall Street up in early trade
Spillover from Japan’s debt market moves appear limited as regional investors turn to policy signals from Davos[SINGAPORE] Asian equity markets remained on a stable footing on Wednesday (Jan 21),...
Singapore Precious Metals Exchange, director to be charged over alleged unlicensed payment services
If convicted, Victor Foo faces a fine not exceeding S$125,000, imprisonment for a term of up to three years, or both[SINGAPORE] The Singapore Precious Metals Exchange (SPME) and its...
OpenAI seeks to increase global AI use in everyday life
It aims to expand the reach of its products and close the gap between countries with and without access to AIPublished Wed, Jan 21, 2026 · 08:46 PM[SAN FRANCISCO]...
US inflation, not geopolitics, remains biggest risk to markets in 2026, says this chief investment strategist
LGT Private Banking’s Stefan Hofer cautions that market volatility will be ‘much higher’ this year[SINGAPORE] A resurgence in US inflation – rather than geopolitical flashpoints or political rhetoric –...