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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.
The amount raised for sustainable finance within the 57 countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation jumped from $17.8 billion in 2017 to...
Indonesia's finance minister has floated the idea. Singapore and Malaysia are pushing back. Thailand sees an opportunity.
Chinese EV giant BYD received the most orders of any automaker at the Bangkok Auto Show in early April, beating Toyota for the first time.
Malaysia joins a growing number of Southeast Asian nations hoping to tap Russia’s stocks of crude oil.
Sunway’s $2.77 billion bid for IJM collapses after failing to secure enough shares, amid valuation disputes, political pressure, and corruption...
Asian markets surged on the possibility that much needed oil, gas and commodities can start flowing through the Strait of Hormuz again.
"The Middle East conflict has shifted the balance of risks to the downside,” says Dong He, chief economist of the ASEAN 3 Macroeconomic Research...
“The scaling laws that have driven the AI boom are fundamentally peacetime constructs."
Southeast Asia's only nuclear plant never got used after allegations of corruption. The region is trying again, 50 years later, amid a new oil shock.
“Asia has more diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular patients than anywhere else in the world,” Abrar Mir, co-founder of Quadria Capital, says.
“You can’t ignore the fact that 85% of the world’s population lives outside temperate regions,” says BDx Data Centers CEO Mayank Shrivastava.
Grab CEO Anthony Tan calls Taiwan a “natural next step” as the superapp enters a high-growth, dense market.
Agriculture is the backbone of many ASEAN economies like Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
China stepped up to diversify its trading partners, and mostly with emerging economies,” says McKinsey's Jeongmin Seong.
Malaysia has a rapidly aging population, with 14.5% of its population set to be 65 and older by 2040.
Analysts say the U.S. President’s decision appears driven by the Iran conflict, and a need to manage the fallout in energy markets.
China calls the two new probes a "typical protectionist act." Malaysia said its U.S. trade deal was now "null and void."
Travel experts now fear that countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia may soon see a dip in tourists.
The energy crunch is forcing governments to adopt extreme measures to save fuel; in Thailand, government employees are being asked to take the stairs.
China accounts for roughly 70% of global rare earth production, but it is the country’s dominance in processing that gives Beijing real leverage.
“Singapore-washing is only credible and effective for companies which fully cut off their operational ties to China," one expert said.
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