Neil Newman, Head of Strategy at Astris Advisory, joins Jeff Cheung as Brent Crude prices touched a high of $101.19 overnight, reigniting inflation concerns as markets are no longer able to brush off the re-escalating conflict in the Gulf after energy prices crossed key psychological thresholds. All this as the Japanese yen continues to weaken against the US dollar, despite repeated vocal reassurances of a currency intervention by Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama.

Ashraf Safdar, APAC Financial Services Go-To-Market lead at Databricks, talks on CFO investment in AI and wha that means for the business world.

Alfred Ip, Partner at Hugill and Ip, talks on philanthropy and how family offices can help clients with it.