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5 days ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
While corporates pared down social bond issuance with the cooling of interest in such products following the arrival of the new US presidential administration, global financial institutions and supernational issuers picked up the slack in the first quarter of 2025 to narrow the decline, according to a recent report.
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5 days ago | 
cn.theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
By Jayde Cheung While corporates pared down social bond issuance with the cooling of interest in such products following the arrival of the new US presidential administration, global financial institutions and supernational issuers picked up the slack in the first quarter of 2025 to narrow the decline, according to a recent report.
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1 month ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Deepening trade ties between India and Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) countries are opening more cross-investment opportunities, with a focus on energy and logistics, while reducing the potential impact of tariffs from the United States. In 2024, India invested 52.3 billion dirhams ( US$14.2 billion ) in Dubai, data from fDi Markets show, making Asia's fastest-growing major economy the largest foreign investor in the Arab emirate.
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1 month ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
In an effort to staunch losses and capture opportunities in the bond market, foreign investors in India with a positive sentiment on the country's growth story have pivoted away from equities.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Vietnam's technology sector is attracting unprecedented interest from foreign investors. For the first two months of 2025, the rapidly developing Southeast Asian economy drew US$6.9 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ), up 35.5% from the same period last year. While the manufacturing and real estate sectors continued to gain the biggest slices of the FDI pie, the amount flowing to science and technology surged 86% to US$354.6 million during the period, the biggest growth among all sectors.
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2 months ago | 
cn.theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
By Jayde Cheung Since the 2008 global financial crisis, emerging market ( EM ) equities have underperformed their developed market ( DM ) counterparts by almost 5% annually, prompting investors to reassess the role of EM in their equity allocations. This underperformance is in stark contrast to the burgeoning growth of EM economies, according to a new report.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, emerging market ( EM ) equities have underperformed their developed market ( DM ) counterparts by almost 5% annually, prompting investors to reassess the role of EM in their equity allocations. This underperformance is in stark contrast to the burgeoning growth of EM economies, according to a new report. The number of EM securities has doubled since 1998.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Payment services in Asia-Pacific ( APAC ) are set to improve further amid rising demand, yet more needs to be done to cater to the retail segment of the market, according to a recent report. Financial institutions are pursuing efforts to modernize their payment infrastructure for faster and more efficient services, with a focus on enabling real-time and cross-border transactions.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
The Hong Kong government in its 2025-26 budget is doubling down on a commitment to establish stronger presence in the technology and artificial intelligence ( AI ) space through new investments and funding programmes. Riding on a global AI boom, the government's budget will allocate HK$1 billion ( US$130 million ) to the establishment of the new Hong Kong AI Research and Development Institute, to further strengthen the booming technology's development in the city.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Hong Kong's economic lynchpin, the property market, continues to decline, with rental prices in the residential, office and retail segments on a downtrend. A potential default by a major developer can bring the residential sector down by another 7%, a market report says. After slipping for three years in a row, home prices in the special administrative region are expected to level off at the lowest since the Covid outbreak, with 20,000 new flats projected to be sold this year.
