Kopi With YP: Your Minimalist Morning Brief, 21 Apr

Get up to speed and stay smart with the latest business, tech, and local news in under 2 minutes.

Business

Additional trials of Mastercard’s new fingerprint-using biometric cards are being planned in Europe and Asia in the next few months.

Bank Of Japan warns the world’s policy makers against undoing the free trade that has brought prosperity to many economies.

Fed fines the Deutsche Bank $156 million for Forex violations and running afoul of the Volcker Rule.
 

World

Japanese commuters will be encouraged to work from home for one day in a nationwide exercise for the 2020 olympics to ease congestion.

France called for the election campaign to be suspended after the shooting in Paris where a police officer was killed and two others were injured.
 

Local

CAAS unveils roadmap to transform the aviation sector. Their blueprint will see 8,000 “good jobs” created or redesigned.

Hazy skies are back. The 24-hour PSI edges towards the unhealthy range of 62-95 as of 8 am this morning.

Five attacks, one monkey? Despite deploying traps and using darts to tranquilize the Segar Rd monkey, the primate is still at large.
 

Tech

Apple updated its developer portal with a new tool they’re calling LivePhotosKit, basically to bring back Live Photo playback to your sites.

Amazon has quietly introduced a change to its Alexa Skills Developer agreement aimed to further restrict ads.