Straits Signal

Runtime: ~46 min 650 digital banks exist in the world. Only 92 are profitable. Rachel Freeman runs one of them. In this episode of Straits Signal, Kim Yeoh sits down with Rachel Freeman of Tyme Group, the digital bank serving 22 million customers across the Philippines and South Africa, profitable from close to day one. Rachel has spent her career building financial infrastructure across four cont...

Most people will look at @Verdant Solar's listing and see the highlight reel. 39.6 times oversubscribed. 19% debut jump. Malaysia Book of Records. RM111 million in revenue. That's the ending. This conversation is about the price of getting there. Zeth Lim founded Verdant Solar in 2013. He didn't hire a single person for five years. He chose residential rooftops — one customer at a time — in an ind...

STRAITS SIGNAL | EP 01 The Fear Premium:The hidden friction behind Singapore’s commercial EV transition Most people know Hong Seh for Ferrari. For Maserati. For the kind of cars that made Singaporeans crane their necks on the PIE. That chapter's closed. And what Edward Tan — third-generation, true-blue Singaporean — is building in its place is arguably more interesting. Less glamorous, maybe. But...