As one of the fastest-growing asset managers in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Fransi Capital needed to change its infrastructure in order to achieve aggressive goals for efficiency and scalability.

What’s the best way for firms to kick-start adopting new technology in their investment workflow? Gather investment professionals across Asia Pacific to tackle real-life challenges together and learn from each other.

Insurers face an average 10% hit to 2021 consensus EPS from the recent acceleration in costs for construction materials, according to our scenario analysis.

ESG green, social and sustainability debt issuance is growing at an exponential pace, surging past $3 trillion in cumulative sales this week — just 15 years after the first sale.

The combination of COVID and the advancement of technology has led to fundamental changes in society over the past year, the long-term implications of which are only gradually becoming apparent.

Driven by regulation, banks in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia are better prepared to move from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) by year-end (and for some U.S. dollar settings, June 30, 2023) than their peers in emerging markets that remain in a policy vacuum.

Banks may need to invest significant sums to bolster their regulatory risk operations or face heightened legal scrutiny, given the volume of contracts still referencing the Libor benchmark that’s due to retire at the end of 2021 (and June 30, 2023 for dollar-denominated Libor).

Banks and asset managers shouldn’t be fooled that the transition away from LIBOR is a small legal and compliance task, in spite of dollar-denominated extensions.

Since 2016, Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, has continuously delivered digital payment enhancements to its consumers so they could pay more conveniently and cashlessly for a growing list of services offered.

Economic data releases will take unexpected turns this year given the extremes in year-on-year comparisons.