The startup pipeline in Southeast Asia is changing. Drawing on AngelCentral’s 2025 analysis of startup applications, Shao-Ning Huang, Chief Angel & Partner at AngelCentral joins the Breakfast Show to discuss data-driven insights on mid-career founders, what angel investors look for, and why many corporate professionals struggle in startups.


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Mind Your Business: Why more corporate professionals are becoming startup founders

As Southeast Asia positions itself as a global hub for data centres and digital infrastructure, banks are stepping up lending to support the boom. But with growth comes new forms of credit risk.
 

Dan Koh speaks with Rena Kwok, Senior Credit Analyst, Asian Financials, Bloomberg Intelligence, about Singapore banks’ exposure to data centre loans, whether risks are contained, a look ahead to ASEAN banks’ outlook for 2026, and the impact of currency volatility across the region.


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Bigger Pic: Singapore banks data centre lending risks and ASEAN banks outlook 2026

It's that time of year where we try to eat healthy, quit drinking, and hit the gym! As 2026 knocks on our doors, we look back at the goals we had set for ourselves last year; and find out what and why we fell short. Audrey and Emaad also share tips from experts on how to make your 2026 resolutions stick!
 

 
 

Presented by Audrey Siek & Emaad Akhtar
 

Produced by Audrey Siek
 

Edited by Trisha Yeong
 

Photo and music credit: Pixabay & its talented community of contributors


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Breakfast Bites: New year, new you! What are your goals for 2026?

Nike is one of the world’s most recognisable brands, but the company is navigating a challenging reset after a period of weak stock performance and uneven growth.
 

Dan Koh and Audrey Siek unpack Nike’s latest earnings, the pressures on margins, ongoing weakness in China, and what recent insider buying by Apple CEO and Nike board member Tim Cook could signal.


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Companies To Watch: Can Nike run again after a tough year for the stock?

2025 was a defining year for the silver market, marked by record prices and heightened investor interest. As the market enters 2026, attention is now turning to whether those gains can be sustained.
 

On Wealth Tracker, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Gregor Gregersen, Founder, Silver Bullion Group, to take a step back to look at how silver performed in 2025, what drove the big moves, and what investors were watching through the year.


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Wealth Tracker: Did silver fare better than gold in 2025?

Singapore shares dipped today in the last trading day of 2025.
 

The Straits Times Index was down 0.2% at 4,646.27 points at 10.29am Singapore time, with a value turnover of S$199.83M seen in the broader market.
 

In terms of counters to watch, we have SUTL Enterprise, after the marina developer and operator said yesterday that it will acquire Marina at Keppel Bay from Keppel Bay for S$40 million, with the acquisition to be completed in the second half of 2026. 
 

Elsewhere, from how China's manufacturing activity unexpectedly grew in December, to how Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometre semiconductor chips, more international and corporate headlines remained in focus. 
 
On Market View, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian unpacked the developments with Audrey Ho, Investment Counselor, Citigold Private Client, Citibank Singapore.


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Market View: Looking ahead to 2026; S&P 500 Index up over 17% in 2025; China's manufacturing acti...

To wrap up 2025, Hongbin Jeong and Alexandra Parada revisit the viral moments that truly defined the year online on What’s Trending. 
 

Pop culture went into overdrive when Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce got engaged, a crossover romance so big it united Swifties, sports fans and the internet at large; a seemingly harmless Coldplay kiss-cam moment spiralled into a global scandal when two uncomfortable concertgoers were identified as a married tech CEO and his company’s HR head, sparking resignations and debates over privacy, power and public shaming; the world’s most famous museum was rocked by a bold daylight heist at the Louvre, with crown jewels worth over US$100 million still missing even as new security measures were rushed in; and back home, Singapore’s GE2025 proved that politics and memes now go hand in hand, as campaign moments were remixed into viral songs, TikToks and WhatsApp forwards that sometimes travelled faster than the actual policy debates.


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What’s Trending: What was the most viral story of 2025?

Music may seem worlds apart from branding, content studios, or operating businesses in China. But for JJ Ong, Multi-Hyphenate and serial entrepreneur, those disciplines are deeply connected.
 

In this episode of Mind Your Business, the Breakfast Show explores how JJ’s early years as an independent musician laid the groundwork for his later ventures — from founding branding and content businesses to running cross-border operations in China. JJ shares how creative skills can be translated into scalable business models, the mindset shift from being hired talent to building platforms, and the practical lessons in pricing, risk, and cash management that come with growing multiple ventures.


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Mind Your Business: From music to multi-ventures — building businesses around creative skill

With just two days left of 2025, attention now turns to how we’re getting ready to ring in the New Year, and what you need to know before heading out.
 

From countdown celebrations and fireworks to road closures and enhanced security measures, we’ll walk you through what to expect as Singapore gears up for New Year’s festivities, so you can plan ahead and celebrate safely.
 

Whether you’re heading out, staying in, or still deciding, Hongbin Jeong and Alexandra Parada discuss the details on The Big Story. 


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