Regional Insights

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...

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

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...

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,...