Technology
Transforming money into data
Real-time settlements, interoperability of payment rails and programable instruments are boosting cross-border transactions.
3 min read | November 2023
Technology
How Technology is Altering Asia’s Trading Landscape
The growth of the dark pool space and the rise of electronic crossing platforms are playing an instrumental part in the evolution of Asia’s execution landscape as buyside trading desks look to tap into additional sources of liquidity efficiently and anonymously.
3 min read | July 2023
Economics
The risk management of Asian opportunities: Heng Swee Keat
Singapore’s deputy prime minister believes that economic fundamentals in Asia makes for a great opportunity when balanced with prudent risk management.
4 min read | July 2023
Technology
Macro Tailwinds Favor Long-Term Growth of Tech-Enabled Companies in Asia
Investors are looking at companies that exhibit sustainable growth and profitability
3 min read | October 2022
Technology
Crypto winter came in the summer...What’s next?
Blockchain technology is being widely adopted including in trade finance and asset tokenization
3 min read | October 2022
Sustainability
Gender-Related Finance Set to Accelerate Japan’s Sustainability Agenda
Investors and corporates are looking to finance to tackle gender inequality in Japan.
4 min read | May 2022
Economics
Chinese Hog Cycle and Inflation
While Beijing’s policymakers are trying to boost growth by ramping up monetary and fiscal stimulus, the last thing they want is a rapid rise in inflation.
2 min read | April 2019
Economics
2 min video | March 2019
Emerging Markets
ASEAN internet: Opening up the mobile wallet
ASEAN gross transaction value of mobile payments is expected to rise to USD109bn in next 10 years.
2 min read | February 2019
Technology
APAC Technology: is there Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Due to various macro and micro issues (US-China trade war, US fed aggressive rate hike, sluggish IT demand, Intel CPU shortage), there has been a slowdown in demand from 2H18
4 min read | January 2019
Emerging Markets
China FinTech – 2018: survival of the fittest
Artificial Intelligence (particularly machine learning) and big data technology have been widely adopted in the bank and insurance sectors, owing to the need of processing and understanding the growing customer base and industry data. Over the next two years, we anticipate a “survival of the fittest” scenario.
3 min read | July 2018
Emerging Markets
Digital Disinflation: a Powerful Force Taking Off in Emerging Markets
The first wave of global disinflation came from the globalization of trade. The world is now experiencing a second wave of global disinflation, driven by the digital technology revolution.
2 min read | June 2018
Economics
China: coming out of the shadows
The expansion of shadow banking in China was driven by banks' risk appetite to pursue high returns against a backdrop of slower economic growth, economic rebalancing and behind-the-curve regulation of the sector. As China’s capital market continues to mature, the key for regulators will be to minimize and control the risks that shadow banking poses.
4 min read | September 2017
Economics
China equity strategy: Add Japan and India to our comparative study
Using Confucius' theory of human life stages, we compare stages of economic development of India, China, the US and Japan.
3 min read | September 2017
Economics
Highlights from Nomura Investment Forum Asia 2017
We held our 14th annual Nomura Investment Forum Asia (NIFA) from June 6 to 9, 2017 in Singapore. Hear from some of our key speakers in a highlight video from the conference.
6 min video | August 2017
Economics
Are striving tiger cubs the next phase of flying geese?
Our Asia economists present their scorecard of 23 Emerging Markets on foreign direct investment attractiveness and confirm India and ASEAN’s advantage over other Emerging Markets due to multiple push and pull factors.
11 min podcast | August 2017
Economics
The tranquil path of Asian inflation
In their recent ‘Asia Special Report’, our economists expect a decoupling from the Fed and no rate hikes until H2 2018. They explain this by using three proprietary tools to help improve ability to forecast headline and core inflation for 10 Asian countries.
3 min read | August 2017
Technology
China FinTech: from exuberance to execution
Since mid-2016, the FinTech industry in China has gone through its early stage hype to what is now a process of “survival of the fittest”. At the moment, we are again on the verge of a breakthrough in the FinTech field, with blockchain and AI taking the lead.
4 min read | May 2017