Asean Business
Vietnam loosens bank safeguards to spur growth, stoking prudential concerns
Regulatory relief may be ‘pragmatic’, but analysts warn of systemic risks
Can Vietnam’s small-business backbone survive a compliance squeeze – all at once?
Pressure is mounting from an IP crackdown, origin-of-goods checks and tax reforms
Next advantage for Asean firms lies in ability to operate amid uncertainty: BT regional survey
The question isn’t whether to go regional, but how fast: BT editor Chen Huifen at the flagship report’s launch
Singapore to advance AI agenda as Asean chair, focus on cross-border data flows, smaller firms
The Republic will also seek to align regional AI governance approaches, says Josephine Teo
Singapore taking first steps on ‘nutrition label’ for AI apps with voluntary roll-out, Asean engagement
The key lies in what efforts are made to build trust in the technology: Josephine Teo
‘Very low chance’ that US-Iran deal reverts energy flows to South-east Asia through Hormuz: Bloomberg Economics
Regional growth in H2 is expected to slow amid high oil prices, US tariffs and fiscal concerns, says economist
Vietnam’s stock market liquidity dries up after VN-Index’s record run in May
Trading activity in the country’s equities has quietened significantly
Masan wins record US$750 million offshore loan facility as lenders re-rate credit risk
The group says this is the largest international corporate borrowing of six-year tenor for a Vietnamese private enterprise
Vietnam’s electronics retail king DMX aims to repeat its feat in Indonesia ‘in half the time’
Beyond its own ongoing domestic IPO, it hopes to list joint venture EraBlue in Indonesia within five years
‘Our moat is our people’: GXBank CEO backs passion-driven teams to serve Malaysia’s underserved
About half of the bank’s customers are low-income Malaysians earning under RM4,000 a month
