Asia-Pacific

Falling population fuels rising wages.

Tensions in the South China Sea result in new agreement.

Investing in Myanmar requires reconciling great opportunities and great risks.

Diplomatic breakthrough on disputed sea and energy issues.

Japanese investors are beginning to shake off their notorious aversion to risk and foreign companies and governments are taking advantage.

Trade wars may not have winners but they certainly have losers.

Trade tensions are just one aspect of deteriorating economic ties between the U.S. and China.

Trump's trade war is starting to take an economic toll.

The push into transaction banking by Australia’s growing horde of fintechs and other startups has not been less than the push into personal and small-business lending. 

The second installment of a Global Finance FAQ web series on Islamic finance.

Billed as potentially the biggest IPO since Alibaba, Xiaomi's IPO comes up short.

Global Finance's editor Andrea Fiano explains what is at stake with China's ambitious, transnational infrastructure plan.

Attracting foreign direct investment is a top priority for Sri Lanka as it transitions from an inward-facing economy toward
a more diverse and export-oriented one.

Abenomics has hit the Japanese banking sector hard and now the Post Bank is taking an unprecedented step in the hunt for yields.

China may soon have to tap foreign investors to help fund its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. Can it ease their skepticism about the project?  

The Belt and Road Initiative will spur China’s much-desired internationalization of the renminbi, but there are obstacles.

As Asia ditches cash for digital wallets, more citizens are able to join the financial economy—and they are delighted.

China’s support for trade infrastructure across Asia is definitely winning some friends, but potential for backlash lurks behind opaque management.

Japan’s support for the BRI looks like a new dawn for Sino-Japanese trade relations, but the reality is complex.

China's ambitious, transnational infrastructure plan involving 68 countries and hundreds of billions of dollars in loans and investments promises to transform the Eurasian landmass.