Adriel Yong
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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And the government would have no idea whether I'm spending it on like alcohol or like you know, fast food, whatever.
But now you even your heartland merchant has to scan the QR code.
So I'm sure there's a massive amassement of data on the back end about what people are actually spending on, which doors are really popular.
are doing well in which locations.
So this is actually, I think, a really good like government tech feat, actually, if you look at the entire system end to end.
You know, I think the announcements on strengthening the enterprise ecosystem was part of the uh work that came out of the is it economic strategies review committee.
And then I think that was part of the entrepreneurship committees like recommendations, right?
I think one part is what is the reality today?
The reality today is that your SGX is probably, you know, one of the worst performing like exchanges in the region behind the Bangkok stock exchange.
Behind KL, IDX, you know, very few regional sort of like startups that have gone done well and gone large across the region want to list in the actual most preferred to either list on the Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, or elsewhere.
But you know, when you think about that, how does that sort of like impact the long-term anchoring of this homegrown or regional grown like companies?
I think that's the reaction, right?
Right with the anchor fund.
Well, but the problem here is that fundamentally Singapore's stock exchange is no as liquid because, well, if you think about the number of people in Singapore to trade on the SGX, actually it's way less than America.
And then you compound that further with, you know, Singapore being much more for a high savings rate type of economy, population.
Uh
And you know, the truth is actually for most people
on the back of their minds, they're already like the government is already helping me invest my money through CPF, right?
Why do I, you know, take that extra risk to try and like play with the stock market, especially when, you know, the historical performance, even for your largest companies like your DBS bank or your SIE, has actually not even been anywhere like stellar compared to their equivalents in the US, right?
Like, why do I invest in D BS Bank on
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