Ranamita Chakraborty

Ranamita Chakraborty

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Ranamita graduated from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University with a Masters in International Relations. She joined BT on Sept 18, 2024 and covers the capital as well as insurance markets. 

CNE vice-president Mike Luo previously told BT that investors should view the company as operating at the intersection of AI and the physical world.

Concord New Energy to sell S$158.2 million in assets to Industrial Bank Financial Leasing

In this sell-and-leaseback deal, a CNE unit will lease the assets back for a period of 14 years

Terence Wong, founder and CEO of Azure Capital (left), with Trek 2000 executive chairman and group president Wayne Tan.

Trek 2000 shares jump 41.5% after Osim founder Ron Sim drops claims, sells 7.3% stake to Azure Capital

With a reduced holding of 2%, he ceases to be a substantial shareholder

In his new role, Jeffrey Lam will  continue to report to group president and chief executive officer Vincent Chong and remain a member of the group executive committee.

ST Engineering names its group COO and commercial aerospace president as group deputy CEO

The group deputy CEO post has been vacant for 9 years, but the company says filling it now reflects its expansion

Fortune notes that Tan Su Shan made history in 2025 as the first woman to lead DBS, South-east Asia’s largest bank by assets.

DBS CEO Tan Su Shan ranks sixth globally on Fortune’s most powerful women list in 2026

Png Chin Yee, Temasek International’s CFO, is the only other Singapore-based executive on the global list, at 77th

IHH Healthcare attributes its Q1 revenue growth to “sustained demand for quality healthcare services, a case mix of more acute patients, and price adjustments to counter inflation”.

IHH Healthcare Q1 net profit edges up 3% to RM528 million

Foreign currency translation differences set the group back by RM796 million during the quarter

LKT commenced proceedings in the Singapore High Court against Edmund Cheah in May 2025, alleging breaches of fiduciary duties and duties of fidelity.

Property group Lee Kim Tah reaches settlement with ex-director in ongoing misconduct probe

This relates to allegations of ex-CapitaLand employees in India accepting bribes, kickbacks from a JV subsidiary

Boustead attributes its FY2026 performance primarily to the sale of assets to UI Boustead Reit.

Boustead more than doubles H2 profit to S$197.7 million

Full-year earnings are up 145%; the board proposes a final ordinary dividend of S$0.04 a share

One of the acquired properties is located in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust grows presence in Europe with 4 property acquisitions

The agreed purchase price of about 294.9 million euros represents a 1.5% discount to their appraised value

Sats president and CEO Kerry Mok says the group has been "working closely with customers to maintain their cargo flows as routes and lanes shift" amid the Middle East conflict.

Sats posts 31% rise in Q4 profit despite impact of Middle East conflict

Its board proposes a final dividend of S$0.05 a share, up from S$0.035 in the year before

Russell Ng, CEO of Aims Apac Reit's manager, says that even after "another year of steady growth" in FY2026, the Reit is "making a deliberate pivot towards data centres".
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Aims Apac Reit eyes data centre growth as it expands beyond industrial assets

Government endorsement for two Sydney sites gives the manager the option to develop them into data centre assets