Finance In Asia

Japan's USD 10 billion POWERR Asia framework lands differently depending on which balance sheet you sit on. Five countries. Five...

Southeast Asia built a petroleum safety net in 1986. Forty years later, with Hormuz closed and Brent near USD 130...

Japan has mobilised USD 10 billion to stabilise Asia’s energy supply chains. For governments and corporates, the real question is...

Indonesia built Danantara to fix its governance credibility problem. The MSCI crisis has revealed the paradox: the fund's borrowing capacity...

While markets fixate on Indonesia's MSCI deadline, two compounding crises are running simultaneously - a budget haemorrhaging IDR 6.7 trillion...

On 27 January 2026, MSCI gave Indonesia four months to fix its markets or face demotion. Regulators moved fast. A...

Southeast Asia's corporate disposal cycle was already building before oil hit USD 100. The Hormuz shock has added a new...

When oil hit USD 100, Southeast Asia's CFOs were already managing three simultaneous capital pressures: a structural shift to all-cash...

The Strait of Hormuz was not closed by missiles alone. It was closed by the withdrawal of a piece of...

Brent crude above USD100. The Strait of Hormuz effectively closed. For institutional investors with ASEAN exposure, this is not a...