Asia in Focus

Foreign investors made net purchases of USD 23.0 billion of emerging East Asian bonds in three months; the ASEAN markets...

Thailand's national disaster insurance scheme was due to take effect on 1 October 2026. Bangkok's worst floods since 2011 hit...

ASEAN’s record USD243.9 billion FDI haul is now being matched by new market infrastructure. Three sovereign wealth funds have created...

Some 83% of Philippine CEOs are confident about their industry's prospects over the next 12 months, unchanged from last year....

Cyber-extortion victims have tripled since 2020. Charl van der Walt tells Bizruption.asia why boards, CFOs and risk officers increasingly need...

Southeast Asia's largest planned AI Factory, a sovereign wealth fund doubling down on data centres and CoreWeave's first Asia-Pacific facility...

Indonesia is accelerating investment in AI and data-centre infrastructure as its framework for governing data and cyber risk continues to...

Asia's syndicated loan market outside Japan is in its worst slump in 16 years. That fact, not the Iran war,...

Asian banks are not one bloc reassessing Gulf risk together. Japanese lenders call the pullback cyclical. Chinese banks have split...

Asian banks extended more than USD 17 billion to Gulf borrowers in 2025, a record. The Iran conflict froze much...