Findings from the 2025–2026 Visa Growth Corporates Working Capital Index (WCI) reveal a significant gap between Asia Pacific companies' working capital needs and the financial tools available to them.
Amid rising inflation, interest rates, and liquidity pressures, Asia Pacific Growth Corporates (mid-sized firms with annual revenues between US$50 million and...
Hong Kong-based Virtual Asset Trading Platform (VTAP) HKVAX has selected Thales Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to strengthen the security and compliance of its digital asset custody infrastructure.
Operating under the Securities and Futures Commission's rigorous regulatory framework, HKVAX required a cryptographic foundation capable of addressing evolving cyber risks to...
Tariff-driven trade diversification has redrawn the map of Southeast Asian trade — and exposed a less visible cost.
Payoneer's latest whitepaper estimates that USD 2.5 billion in transaction value is being lost each year across five Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) markets — Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines — as...
Confidence among Asia-Pacific accountants and finance professionals rebounded sharply in the second quarter of 2026, according to the latest ACCA and IMA Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS), reversing a sharp Q1 decline and pushing the region's confidence and New Orders indices meaningfully above their historical averages.
This is a stronger...
A major report, Enabling finance insight, reveals that finance professionals rank generative AI as their single most critical future skill, even as most organisations in the region provide no formal training to build it.
39% of Southeast Asia respondents named GenAI tools as a top three critical skill for the...
70 percent of buy-side firms are successfully employing Artificial Intelligence to support their front office, according to a global study commissioned by SimCorp.
This finding marks a significant increase from last year's report, which showed only about 10 percent of respondents were actively exploring AI tools. At the time, 75 percent...
CEO confidence in their company's revenue prospects has fallen to its lowest level in five years, as business leaders grapple with uneven returns from artificial intelligence, rising geopolitical risk, and intensifying cyber threats.
According to PwC's 29th Global CEO Survey, only three-in-ten (30%) CEOs say they are confident about revenue...
Singapore has, by most measures, cracked cashless payments. PayNow is ubiquitous. QR codes work at hawker centres and luxury boutiques alike. Consumer readiness is high and the regulatory environment, shaped by MAS, is among the more coherent in the region.
But a 2026 analysis of payment and settlement inefficiencies across...
According to the World Bank, SMEs account for approximately 90% the world's businesses and contribute 65% of the global cross-border trade. SMEs play a pivotal role in most economies, particularly in emerging markets.
Estimates from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggest...
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) have launched the Centre for Enterprise Financing Advisory (CEFA). First announced in July 2025, CEFA was conceived as a one-stop platform for enterprises to access advisory services and resources to build strong financial management fundamentals, make informed financing decisions as...
