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WHAT probability do you give that there might be a new financial crisis? This month, the number crunchers at Oxford Economics, a research group, asked 162 global businesses this question. Their average answer was 20 per cent over the next two years.

THE addressable loan market for Singapore's upcoming digital banks is estimated to be worth S$220 billion to S$243 billion, with these digital-only entities likely to catalyse loan growth in underserved segments, according to DBS Group Research.

IMAGINE you are a brand with a digital advertising campaign. One of your main goals is to reach a certain number of downloads and in-app activity. Mobile marketers like you spend millions on global campaigns, using Google, Facebook, Twitter and various other platforms to place trigger-inducing advertisements...

ANT Group has launched a blockchain trade platform that has roped in banking partners, in a nod to big tech tying up with big banks to tackle the pain points of trade finance.

IMAGINE you are a brand with a digital advertising campaign. One of your main goals is to reach a certain number of downloads and in-app activity. Mobile marketers like you spend millions on global campaigns, using Google, Facebook, Twitter and various other platforms to place trigger-inducing advertisements...

Delta Air Lines said on Friday it is bringing forward a series of aircraft retirements, leading to a charge of up to US$2.5 billion in the third quarter.

American Airlines said on Friday it has secured a US$5.5 billion government loan and could tap up to US$2 billion more in October depending on how the U.S. Treasury allocates extra funds under a US$25 billion loan package for airlines.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Friday, led by technology-related stocks, but were still set for their longest weekly losing streak in a year as fears about the coronavirus' impact on the economy weighed on investor sentiment.

About 3,500 U.S. companies, including Tesla Inc , Ford Motor Co , Target Corp , Walgreen Co and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than US$300 billion in Chinese-made goods.

A single dose of Johnson & Johnson's experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the novel coronavirus in an early-to-mid stage clinical trial, according to interim results published on Friday.