The emerging East Asian local currency ( LCY ) bond market amounted to US$30.6 trillion at the end of 2025 as the issuance during the year rose to US$12 trillion from the previous year, according to a ...

The Western caricature of Chinese “debt-trap diplomacy” ignores the realities of China’s economic presence in Central Asia. What is emerging across the region is not dependency but interdependence, as ...

Citi has issued the first digitally native structured note on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (D-FMI) platform. It is also the first of its kind to be offered within the wealth ...

Renminbi (RMB) internationalization is entering a more structural phase, with the Chinese currency increasingly integrated alongside other major currencies within multi-currency treasury frameworks, a ...

Singapore-based data centre operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) aims to raise up to US$5 billion in debt financing this ...

Women create, inherit and control a greater proportion of wealth than ever before, yet many financial institutions are ...

Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) has signed a 21.65 billion yen (US$137 million) loan agreement with the Government of the Philippines to provide an Official Development Assistance loan ...

Investor confidence or risk appetite improved slightly in February to move back into positive territory having been balanced in January, according to the State Street Risk Appetite Index.

As geopolitical tensions and inflationary pressures unsettle global markets, Asian investors are increasingly turning to multi-asset portfolios to balance risk and opportunity.

China has announced a 2026 GDP growth target of 4.5% to 5% during the Two Sessions meeting, marking the first time in three decades that a result below 5% is being officially considered. After three ...

TotalEnergies has put in place a strategic partnership with Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) via the sale of a 50% stake in a portfolio of 11 battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in ...

Globeleq, a London-headquartered independent power company focused on the African market, has acquired a 51% equity stake in Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company (LHPC) from Norfund, the Norwegian ...