Asia-Pacific

Europe and Japan create the world's largest free trade zone.

Nations compete for foreign direct investment.

Demand for materials needed in batteries and energy storage has created a dynamic new market for once-obscure metals. Can supply keep up with demand?

Economic damage from Brexit will not be limited to the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

Bulgaria, Indonesia, Vietnam, Peru and Morocco are better positioned to weather global headwinds, a report finds. Antonella Ciancio As US-China trade tensions, tightening financial conditions and increasing political uncertainty cast shadows on global economic growth in 2019, five emerging countries ...

Bangladesh's longest-serving PM wins re-election and vows to modernize the country.

Debt-ridden Pakistan gets a lifeline.

Vietnam's economic reforms are leading to an IPO boom.

Tina Byles Williams is CEO and founder of FIS Group, a US asset manager. She speaks with Global Finance about US-China trade conflict, and the winners and losers in the new world order.

Japan needs workers from abroad to meet labor market demands.

Defaults in China's corporate sector have spiked.

India's distressed debt is becoming a hot item for international investors.

Will India's economic policymaking apparatus finally become more stable?

Canada's arrest of Huawei's CFO is causing geopolitical and economic tensions.

Taiwan’s economy is still strong and well diversified, according to the participants in a recent Global Finance roundtable in Taipei. In the near future, global trade tensions could be both a risk and an opportunity for the local economy.

Chaebols, an aging population, and an erratic northern neighbor are going to keep the new South Korean finance minister busy.

China's rise is contested by other powers.

Corporate reform gets real in South Korea.

Digital and mobile technologies are rapidly transforming the way Asians use financial services. Is competition or collaboration the answer for traditional banks?

India's economic policy-making continues to face hurdles.