Regional Insights

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...

AirAsia plans to cut Q3 capacity by 20%-25%, then restore it to pre-war levels in Q4. The plan works if...

AirAsia's Q2 2026 foreign exchange loss ran to MYR 331.0 million, nearly 40% of its total net loss. Fuel was...

Jet fuel hit USD 183 a barrel in Q2 2026. AirAsia lost MYR 830.5 million, Cebu Pacific PHP 5.5 billion,...

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...

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...