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The Stripe-owned company sees potential in Asia, where trade-heavy economies need faster cross-border payment rails.
The head of Asia’s largest private health group is advancing clinical longevity, cancer care, AI and neighborhood-based treatment.
To help businesses expand, Stripe is announcing partnerships with an array of Southeast Asian payment processors like ShopeePay, GCash, and TrueMoney.
Economists studying the region are worried that AI’s gains won’t be evenly shared across Asia.
Last year, Japan began a push to reboot its innovation engine with a plan to channel $2.3 trillion in investments to 17 strategic sectors by 2040.
The White House claimed last week that the rerouting of Chinese goods cost the U.S. as much as $303 billion.
“What we need is more energy of all sorts, not only more renewable energy,” Lucci tells Fortune at the firm’s headquarters in Pasay City, Manila.
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) reported a 24.6% increase in net profits in FY2026.
MariBank launched in 2023 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sea, Southeast Asia’s largest tech firm and No. 12 on the Fortune Southeast Asia 500.
MariBank launched in 2023 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sea, Southeast Asia’s largest tech firm and No. 12 on the Southeast Asia 500.
Experts say shortages are forcing companies to explore Chinese chip supplies, yet adoption is still likely to be selective and politically contested.
Southeast Asia, home to young, digitally-savvy populations and a rising middle class, offers fertile ground for leapfrogging.
Here's who's rising, and who's debuting, from Asia on this year's Global 500, Fortune's ranking of the world's largest companies by revenue.
Insurers are expanding into wealth management, tapping a customer base that already uses their products to protect their finances.
“Every country wants to have the next Silicon Valley or be the next AI mega-producer, but getting there isn’t just a matter of snapping one's...
"The U.S. is actually one of our largest markets, especially as Americans are taking a growing interest in APAC destinations."
“We’re not really in this de-dollarization camp,” said Divya Devesh, the bank's co-head of FX research for ASEAN and South Asia.
Muangthai ranks No. 295 on Fortune’s Southeast Asia 500 list, with 2025 revenue of 30.74 billion Thai baht ($936 million).
Venture slowdown, weak exits and fragmented markets are pushing some Asian startups to Silicon Valley.
A new kind of business—blending hospitality, technology, and traditional practices—is promising to extend not just lifespan, but also 'healthspan'.
Both countries must now escape the middle income trap that has stalled several of their Southeast Asian peers.
Still, new CEO Tan Teck Long promised to hire 600 new relationship managers, as wealth management becomes a growing business for the Singaporean bank.
Singapore now contributes 20% of Maybank’s annual revenue, but its country CEO Alvin Lee hopes to lift that number to 30% by 2030.
Temasek moves CFO Png Chin Yee into a new leadership role and taps Wendy Koh as finance chief.
Indonesia's market is now one of the world’s worst-performing, with the Jakarta Composite Index falling over 28% in 2026 thus far.
"It’s easiest to operate in the region if I have people in Singapore—it’s where conversations are happening."
Even with the Strait of Hormuz open, it will take months for oil flows and prices to return to pre-war levels.
Half of the top 10 companies on the SEA 500 are headquartered in Singapore. No. 1 goes to commodity giant Trafigura, with revenue of $240 billion.
Surging gold prices helped lift Indonesia's Hartadinata Abadi up 115 places on the Southeast Asia 500, as investors flocked to the safe haven asset.
“There’s no way all these infrastructure investments can be financed by the local banking ecosystems,” Lottner says. “Vietnam’s...
The country had 21 million visitors in 2025. Officials think they can attract even more in the future—and are splurging on infrastrucuture spending...
“In Asia, we don’t have this problem since we’re much more comfortable with money.”
“There are other ways to drive awareness or adoption that aren't about making all the features immediately present," says design head Randy Hunt.
“I’m hesitant to lean into the stablecoin and agentic commerce narratives too much,” Chris Suh, Visa’s chief financial officer, tells Fortune.
Southeast Asia is "closer to home and encompasses many emerging economies with young populations.”
Singapore Gulf Bank comes from a partnership between the Whampoa Group and Mumtalakat, Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund.
Drought and high temperatures will strain power grids right as countries are still scrambling for limited oil and gas supplies.
Globally, less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to mitigating climate change. Of that small amount, an even smaller sliver—just 12%—goes to Asia.
“If you go to the Grab office now, you'll see robots from other companies as well. We use a 1 n strategy which keeps us on our toes.”
AI PCs are helping to drive HP's sales, even as higher memory costs are starting to erode margins.
Antler positions itself as a “day zero” investor, meaning it backs founders from the very start, before they’ve even started building their...
The Southeast Asian tech company will launch a pilot of its first delivery robot in Singapore’s Punggol district in late 2026.
Under Arundhati Bhattacharya, Salesforce’s South Asia headcount grew from 2,500 to over 18,000; India is now one of Salesforce’s fastest growing...
SIA reported a 57.4% drop in FY2025 net income to $927 million. Profits were partially eroded by losses from the airline's investment in Air India.
“The market has been complacent,” Chen Chien-Ming, an associate professor at NTU, says, blaming investors' "wishful thinking that the war will...
"The current administration is doing a lot to bring in FDI, and the middle class is growing," says deputy CEO Lionel Leong.
CEO Roland Fasel tells Fortune he's looking at "gateway cities" for growth.
South Korea is probing firms suspected of hoarding syringes, which, alongside products like needles and gloves, are produced from petrochemicals.
The AI boom is lifting markets across East Asia, yet energy concerns is causing Southeast Asia to lag behind.
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