Asia-Pacific

The Indian government's mobile payments platform sees 1.3 billion transactions per month.

India shifts policy to generate foreign investment in coal industry.

With growth slowing, Beijing pushes technology, innovation and urban experimentation as the keys to China’s future economic ascendancy.

Some de-escalation in the US-China trade war.

US-China tensions have not blunted American investors' enthusiasm for Chinese companies.

China joins Thailand and HSBC Singapore in issuing blockchain-based bond issuance pilots.

China and Russia are getting closer and closer.

With US policy under President Trump pushing them into each others’ arms, the China-Russia friendship is warming up.

The US is using soft power to compete with China's ambitious global infrastructure initiative.

Is this the emergence of a new "India First" trade policy?

China's economic rise is producing more and more billionaires.

Sri Lanka's new president may be a strong man, but can he strengthen the economy?

China’s rapid embrace of financial transactions via smartphone has opened new opportunities in the investment sector. Li Yimei, CEO of Beijing-based ChinaAMC, describes how her firm is using technology to serve clients and stay on top of the asset management business.

Xingfei Chen, deputy general manager of the Transactions Banking Department of China Guangfa Bank (CGB), this year’s Most Innovative Bank, talks about how the bank makes innovation central to its operating philosophy and some of the “firsts” that make it a Star of China.

China’s banks embrace technology while staying focused on the real economy.

With systemwide deleveraging on hold, the Chinese banking sector will resume its growth trajectory.

Scandal continues to rattle the Japanese automaker.

Will Huawei's offer be enough to allay concerns of collusion with the Chinese government?

Cambodia offers foreign investors strong growth, but it’s a tiny market. Corruption doesn’t help.

Loo Siew Yeen, assistant managing director at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, talks about digital changes and how the central bank is handling spillover effects of the US-China trade war and Hong Kong turmoil.