Asia in Focus

Four companies beat expectations in the same 13-day window in July 2026. All four were sold off anyway. This is...

The Proof Gap Trade showed why the market is punishing AI capex it cannot verify. Three data-backed signals, drawn from...

Chip stocks lost USD 1.3 trillion in a week despite record earnings. Four research houses say enterprise AI still cannot...

Vietnam's registered FDI jumps 58% to $38.1 billion, Indonesia and the EU target Q4 signing for their long-delayed trade pact,...

On 6 May 2026, FATF said Singapore's results needed to be sharper. Its answer: widen COSMIC, the cross-bank data-sharing platform....

On 22 June 2026, the Wolfsberg Group's twelve member banks published updated risk-based approach guidance. For compliance leaders still running...

UNODC's latest threat assessment argues that Southeast Asia's organised crime economy now functions less as a collection of national ecosystems...

Vanguard, Blackstone, UBS and Morgan Stanley clear final hurdle for Vietnam market entry, Philippines urged to fix structural issues as...

Reinsurance treaties across Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore kept getting cheaper through April 2026, even as brokers refused war exclusion...

Asia-Pacific insurers are navigating geopolitical conflict, climate volatility and AI-enabled fraud at the same time. The bigger shift, however, is...