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Exchange rates can have a huge impact on the bottom line of your business. Get your questions answered by an OFX currency expert who can help you make informed decisions when moving money globally. In this edition, Edward Wiley, Director of Strategic Partnerships - eCommerce, OFX answers all your questions. 

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Regional Round-up Ep 6: Why Thailand is mixing Covid-19 vaccines to desperately boost protection

10:06 mins

Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments.

The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Elliott Danker and Glenn van Zutphen about the following points:

1. Malaysia's mass testing of the workers and volunteers at the Ideal Convention Centre in Shah Alam (2:00)
2. Malaysia's aim to have 60% of the population immunised by end-September (5:00)
3. Thailand's decision to mix two kinds of vaccines to further boost protection against Covid-19 (6:45)
4. What is the issue with anti-vaxxers in the Phlippines? (8:24)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis & Aleemah Basirah

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Vasu Menon, Executive Director, Investment Strategy, OCBC Bank, discusses what to expect from this week's reading of 2Q GDP from China and Singapore, and previews the earnings season.

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Access to capital is the paramount concern for startups in the growth stage. Many entrepreneurs have built companies only to find the fruits of their labour have been diluted significantly along the way. Jeffrey Liu, CEO & Co-Founder, Jenfi shares more about Jenfi's innovative lending models to accelerate business growth and the suite of different financing sources entrepreneurs should consider. 

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Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times gives an analysis of China's new rules targeting companies that hold data of more than 1 million users, the provision of Sinopharm and Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccines to the international Covax programme, and a dispute between China and a US warship from the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.

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Princeton Digital Group (PDG) a leading investor, developer, and operator of Internet infrastructure, recently announced its plan to build the largest hyperscale facilities in Tokyo, Japan. Asher Ling, Managing Director, Singapore, Princeton Digital Group, provides an overview on the data centre scene in APAC and how data centres can adopt a more sustainable approach to minimize their energy consumption. 

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CNBC's Chery Kang discusses what to look out for as US banks kick off the earnings season, and what central banks in focus this week will be doing amid concerns of COVID-19 variants derailing the economic recovery.

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Washington Report Ep 6: Analysing Biden's efforts to counter corporate consolidation

9:29 mins

Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in the United States.

Steve Okun, senior advisor of McLarty Associates, sits in for ST's Nirmal Ghosh who is on leave, to chat with Money FM 89.3's Elliott Danker about the following points:

1. President Joe Biden's new executive order and its effect on big businesses (1:26)
2. What it means for the future of American jobs (3:26)
3. Analysing Biden's move to pull US forces out of Afghanistan (5:06)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis & Aleemah Basirah

Edited by: Dan Koh

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#PopVultures Podcast: https://str.sg/JWad

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According to Boomi's Global ERP Report findings, 38% of APAC organizations have shifted their applications to the cloud for e-commerce with more predicted moves to the cloud over the next 12 months. HonChew Seetoh, General Manager for Asia, Boomi, shares about the findings of their report and Boomi's efforts to help organizations in their digital transformation journey through their Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS). 

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Offering retailers the ability to combine online and offline marketing with a simplified, data-driven, and affordable tool, SKALE is a self-serve marketing platform that easily allows SME retailers to achieve their marketing goals. Yuet Whey Siah, Founder, SKALE shares more about the current marketing trends in the SMEs sphere and how SME retailers can utilize their platform to help with their marketing efforts. 

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