Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig
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Kopi Time podcast with Taimur Baig
Kopi time is a podcast series on insights from markets and economies around the world, hosted by Taimur Baig, Ph.D., Chief Economist of DBS Bank Ltd.
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Kopi Time E162: AMRO’s Dr Dong He on the regional outlook
Dr. Dong He, Chief Economist of ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), joins Kopi Time to discuss the regional outlook. Dong weighs in on the i...
Kopi Time E161 - Jeff Johnson from AWS on cloud and AI
Jeff Johnson, MD and General Manager for Asean at AWS, joins Kopi Time to talk about all things cloud. We begin with AWS’s reach and scale, spectrum o...
Kopi Time E160 - Eswar Prasad on Stablecoins
We go deep into stablecoins, the idea and practice of which have been around for a while, but a few things have happened this summer to make the matte...
Kopi Time E159 - Mark Domitrak on Consumer and Corporate Sentiment
Mark Domitrak, CT Group’s head of research, spends his time figuring out the pulse of consumers and corporate boardrooms. In this wide ranging podcast...
Kopi Time E158 - Lauri Myllyvirta on Green Energy and Climate Tech
Having been an avid consumer of the output of Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for a few years, I have been keen to have its co-foun...
Kopi Time E157 - Apollo's Torsten Slok on the US economy
We connect with New York-based Torsten Slok, Chief Economist of Apollo Global Management, to discuss the US economy. This highly compelling discussion...
Kopi Time E156 - 2H25 outlook and Ask Me Anything
For this podcast, it’s just yours truly. With 2H25 in mind, I go over trade wars, Middle East tension, and the US economy. Then I take a bunch of ques...
Kopi Time E155 - Capital Wars with Dr. David Skilling
We dive into the presently shifting capital flow dynamic with David Skilling, Founding Director, Landfall Strategy Group. David’s firm provides insigh...
Kopi Time E154 - Chatib Basri on Indonesia’s Present and Future
This is a recording from the DBS Asia Insights Conference 2025, held in Jakarta on May 21. I had the privilege of discussing Indonesia’s near and medi...
Kopi Time E153 - Prof Danny Quah on the Fracturing World Order
Prof Danny Quah, Dean of LKY School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, returns to Kopi Time to share his insights on the danger...
Kopi Time E152: IMF’s Asia head Krishna Srinivasan on tariffs and the region
Dr. Krishna Srinivasan, IMF’s Director of the Asia and Pacific Department, takes us on a journey of Asia, which is facing a major challenge to its exp...
Kopi Time E151 - Private Equity with Alicia Gregory, Blue Owl
Alicia Gregory, Managing Director at Blue Owl, an alternative asset manager, joins Kopi Time to walk us through private equity, a USD12trln asset clas...
Kopi Time E150 - Piyush Gupta on the Present and Future of Banking
Kopi Time hits 5 years and 150 episodes! We celebrate the milestone with Piyush Gupta, outgoing CEO of DBS Bank Ltd. Piyush brings his remarkable inte...
Kopi Time E149 - Longevity with Brian Kennedy
We welcome a foremost expert on the science of aging, lifespan, and healthspan, Professor Brian Kennedy, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and P...
Kopi Time E148 - Private Credit with Fitch’s Meghan Neenan
We dive into the rapidly growing world of private credit. Meghan Neenan, managing director and the North America head of Non-Bank Financial Institutio...
Kopi Time E147 - Kishore Mahbubani on a Fragmenting World
We welcome back to Kopi Time Kishore Mahbubani, distinguished diplomat, academic, and writer on geopolitics. Our conversation, recorded in Mumbai, kic...
Kopi Time E146 - Trade War with Deborah Elms
We welcome back Dr. Deborah Elms, Head of Trade Policy at Heinrich Foundation, Singapore, for a timely discussion on intensifying trade wars. We set t...
Kopi Time E145 - Markets and Trump 2.0
Happy new year! We kick off the year with a discussion on the likely impact of Trump policies on US markets, starting with the 1890s McKinley tariff n...
Kopi Time E144 - 2025 outlook with Dr. Komal Sri-Kumar
We bring the year to an end with astute market strategist and Fed watcher Dr. Komal Sri-Kumar. Sri begins by taking stock of the US economy and market...
Kopi Time E143 - Markets and Policy Path Dependence with Mustafa Chowdhury
Are today’s policy challenges and market behaviour largely about post pandemic macro, or are they reflecting fiscal, monetary, and financial “dominanc...
Kopi Time E142 - Tech and security with Gaurav Keerthi
Gaurav Keerthi, Head of Advisory and Emerging Business at Ensign InfoSecurity, joins Kopi Time to provide a fascinating overview of the current state...
Kop Time E141 - Ashish Gupta on India's Financial Markets
All about India’s financial markets with Ashish Gupta, CIO of Axis Mutual Fund, one of the largest and fastest growing asset management companies in I...
Kopi Time E140 - US Elections with Angela Mancini
We dive into the implications of Donald Trump’s emphatic win at the US presidential elections. Angela Mancini, partner at Control Risks, a global spec...
Kopi Time E139 - Fintech Zeitgeist with Varun Mittal
What is the current state of fintech? Varun Mittal, founder of Fintech Nation, returns to Kopi Time after nearly 100 episodes to comment on the change...
Kopi Time E138 - IMF Notes; Economic Resiliency and Financial Risks
This podcast is an 11-minute reflection on the recently concluded IMF annual meetings, held at Washington DC. The meetings were characterised by relie...
Kopi Time E137 - US public debt and deficits with Shai Akabas
Shai Akabas, Executive Director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Economic Policy Program, joins Kopi Time to discuss all things US fiscal. There is n...
Kopi Time E136 - Drew Thompson on Taiwan from Multiple Perspectives
Drew Thompson, Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, brings his deep China and Taiwa...
Kopi Time E135 - Techno-nationalism with Alexander Capri
Writer and academic Alexander Capri returns to Kopi Time after nearly 5 years, but the issues we discussed then and now remain relevant, if not even m...
Kopi Time E134 - Vasuki Shastry on India’s Manufacturing Future
Vasuki Shastry, Senior Advisor at Gatehouse Advisory Partners, returns to Kopi Time to talk about the decade-old “Make in India” initiative. From Prod...
Kopi Time E133 - Dr. Jennifer Sciubba on Contextualising Demography
Jennifer Sciubba, PhD, President and CEO of Population Reference Bureau, joins Kopi Time to discuss the science and policy dimensions of demographics....
Kopi Time E132 - GIC’s Prakash Kannan on Global Macro and Asset Allocation
Prakash Kannan, Chief Economist and Director of the Economics & Investment Strategy department at GIC, returns to Kopi Time to talk about evolving mac...
Kopi Time E131 - SE Asia 2024-34 with Charles Ormiston
This conversation is about a flagship report on Southeast Asia’s outlook. Earlier this year, researchers from DBS, Angsana Council (backed by Monk’s H...
Kopi Time E130 - Shekhar Aiyar on the Case for Globalisation
Shekhar Aiyar, a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel, on leave from the International Monetary Fund, joins Kopi Time to mount a substantive case for global...
Kopi Time E129 - James Crabtree on the Geopolitics of Elections
James Crabtree, distinguished visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a senior fellow at the Asia Society, returns to Kopi Ti...
Kopi Time E128 - Payments trends with Mastercard's David Mann
We discuss global payment trends with David Mann, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Mastercard. From experiential travel to business events, there h...
Kopi Time E127 - My commencement speech for Yale-NUS graduating class of 2024
Mdm Kay Kuok, Chair of the Yale-NUS Governing Board
Members of the Yale-NUS Governing Board
Professor Aaron Thean, Deputy President (Acade...
Kopi Time E126 : Gen AI with Microsoft's Zia Zaman
We hear about the subject of the moment from Microsoft’s Asia head of business development, Zia Zaman. We begin with the question if the world has bee...
Kopi Time E125 : China from a US business perspective with Mitchell Presnick
Mitchell Presnick, a visiting fellow of practice at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, joins Kopi Time to bring much neede...
Kopi Time E124 : Indonesia outlook with Reformasi's Kevin O'Rourke
Recorded in Jakarta, Kopi Time delves into Indonesia’s elections, domestic and foreign policy, investment environment, and economy with Kevin O'Rourke...
Kopi Time E123 - Control Risks’ Nicolas Reys on Cybersecurity
Today’s episode subject is in response to popular demand. Whether at work or at home, concerns on cybersecurity are elevated to say the least. Nicolas...