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Southeast Asia’s ‘incredibly dynamic’ Islamic finance market is drawing in non-Islamic players

Mambu, an Amsterdam based, SaaS firm is banking on the region's younger people gravitating towards financial solutions that adhere to Islamic...

21.08.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Asia’s elderly risk getting sicker for longer. Hotelier Allen Law wants to ‘bridge the gap’ between lifespan and healthspan

Law sees longevity as one of the two biggest business opportunities over the next decade due to rapid AI advancements and post-COVID lifestyle...

20.08.2025 20

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Singapore transport operator ComfortDelGro now generates more revenue from overseas than its home base

Revenue from operations in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and China now make up more than 50% of the Singapore transport operator's revenue.

14.08.2025 40

Fortune

Lionel Lim

A flood of AI deepfakes challenges the financial sector, with over 70% of new enrolments to some firms being fake

While AI presents an opportunity for financial firms like Ant International, it also poses risks.

13.08.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Sea shares jump almost 20% after strong Q2, as CEO Forrest Li searches for new growth opportunities

The owner of the e-commerce platform Shopee reported quarterly revenue that jumped almost 40% year-on-year to reach $5.3 billion.

13.08.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Southeast Asia’s cities at ‘high risk’ of flooding and heatwaves, thanks to climate change

Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila are among the cities facing at least a "high risk" of extreme rain and heatwaves, according to Zurich Resilience...

12.08.2025 20

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Lionel Lim

Singapore’s largest banks deliver a mixed report card on profits amid looming rate cuts and U.S. tariffs threats

DBS's quarterly profit grew by 1% yet the bank acknowledged "external uncertainties." Profit at fellow banks UOB and OCBC fell.

07.08.2025 40

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Indonesia bets a new sovereign wealth fund will finally unlock its potential

Rosan Roselani, Danatara CEO and ally of president Prabowo Subianto, needs to streamline Indonesia's lumbering state-owned giants.

31.07.2025 20

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Grab is in ‘prime position’ to support the transition to driverless cars, says CEO Anthony Tan

The ride-hailing firm launched a driverless bus in early July that ferries employees from its headquarters to a nearby metro station 4 kilometers...

31.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

The AI boom sends TSMC, the world’s most important chipmaker, up 60 spots on the Global 500

“If someone had told me 10 years ago that I’d meet two presidents in one week...I would have thought they were joking,” CEO C.C. Wei tells Fortune.

31.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Banks should stop using AI to ‘fire hundreds of people’—instead, they should use it to lend to low-income clients, says GFTN’s Sopnendu Mohanty

AI should be used to create “credible” data on customers, allowing them to borrow money without the need for collateral.

28.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

AI might make workers faster, but not necessarily more productive: ‘They do it faster, then go for coffee breaks’

Accenture's lead for its APAC Center for Advance AI argues that reinventing work may be better for companies looking to adopt and leverage AI...

28.07.2025 40

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Lionel Lim

OpenAI’s international managing director explains how the ChatGPT developer thinks about AI and search 

AI agents are what’s driving OpenAI’s interest in search, noted managing director for international Oliver Jay at Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore.

23.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Places like Taiwan dominate chipmaking because they value ‘high-quality’ manufacturing, an ethos that ‘doesn’t exist in North America’

Nigel Toon, CEO of the UK chip firm Graphcore, said people miss is how a place's culture can drive advanced chipmaking.

22.07.2025 20

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Lionel Lim

Data centers guzzle huge amounts of power—and that might end up supercharging investment in renewable energy, executives argue

Solar power, natural gas, and even nuclear could eventually become compelling options over a mid-to-long term horizon.

22.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Malaysia’s AI darling NationGate sees shares tumble after it got raided in a scrap metal smuggling probe

Shares in Nationgate, the fastest-growing company on Fortune's Southeast Asia 500, are down over 10% since Tuesday.

18.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

NTT DC REIT’s flat trading debut shows Singapore’s struggle to revive a ‘lackluster’ stock market

Singapore has had just three IPOs so far this year. Hong Kong, by comparison, has had more than 40.

17.07.2025 20

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Las Vegas Sands hopes to usher in ‘new era of luxury tourism’ with a new $8 billion casino complex in Singapore

The $8 billion project will feature 55-storey hotel tower along with other amenities like luxury boutiques and a casino.

16.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

OCBC’s next CEO shows the Singaporean bank is still betting on ASEAN-China ties for growth

OCBC’s CEO-to-be comes with a wealth of China experience, including a five-year stint leading DBS’s institutional banking business in China.

14.07.2025 40

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Asia shrugs off Trump’s new tariff threat, as governments hope they can get a deal before August 1

On Monday, Trump’s White House unveiled flat 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, two of the U.S’s trading partners.

08.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Del Monte Foods’ bankruptcy rebounds on its Singapore-listed parent company

Philippines-based Del Monte Pacific, No. 142 on the Southeast Asia 500, bought Del Monte Foods in 2014.

04.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim

Trump touts a Vietnam trade deal victory—but details on transshipment and import pledges remain unclear

Trump said the U.S. will impose a 20% tariff on Vietnamese exports to the U.S. Goods transshipped through Vietnam will get 40%. 

03.07.2025 30

Fortune

Lionel Lim