The Real Story Isn’t Iran. It’s Idle Capital
Asia's syndicated loan market outside Japan is in its worst slump in 16 years. That fact, not the Iran war, ...
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Same War, Three Different Risk Committees
Asian banks are not one bloc reassessing Gulf risk together. Japanese lenders call the pullback cyclical. Chinese banks have split ...
Why Asian Banks Are Lending Into a War
Asian banks extended more than USD 17 billion to Gulf borrowers in 2025, a record. The Iran conflict froze much ...
The Recovery Plan That Assumes Fuel Prices Fall
AirAsia plans to cut Q3 capacity by 20%-25%, then restore it to pre-war levels in Q4. The plan works if ...
When the Currency Bill Rivals the Fuel Bill
AirAsia's Q2 2026 foreign exchange loss ran to MYR 331.0 million, nearly 40% of its total net loss. Fuel was ...
The Hedge Gap That Split Southeast Asia’s Airlines
Jet fuel hit USD 183 a barrel in Q2 2026. AirAsia lost MYR 830.5 million, Cebu Pacific PHP 5.5 billion, ...
Record Profits, Falling Stocks: The New Rule for AI Earnings Season
Four companies beat expectations in the same 13-day window in July 2026. All four were sold off anyway. This is ...
Three Signals That Predict Which AI Bets Pay Off
The Proof Gap Trade showed why the market is punishing AI capex it cannot verify. Three data-backed signals, drawn from ...
The Proof Gap Trade: Chips Fall, Questions Rise
Chip stocks lost USD 1.3 trillion in a week despite record earnings. Four research houses say enterprise AI still cannot ...
COSMIC’s Expansion: A Working Blueprint for Network-Based AML
On 6 May 2026, FATF said Singapore's results needed to be sharper. Its answer: widen COSMIC, the cross-bank data-sharing platform. ...
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