As officially announced by Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat during London Tech Week, the trade deal establishing rules and standards for cross-border data flows and data protection between Singapore and the United Kingdom came into force on June 14th.

Representatives from nine Southeast Asian countries, as well as the secretary general of ASEAN, gathered in Washington, D.C. for a two-day special summit. During this summit, the US has pledged to spend $150 million in Southeast Asia. This article identifies the different areas of investment.

This article identifies the opportunities in Southeast Asia from the intensified efforts across the region to build back better and greener, two years after the beginning of the pandemic.

In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' concerns are raising. While Asian companies are less exposed to the two countries than their European counterparts, the crisis might nevertheless have an impact on the region's enterprises. Here are some implications for 5 business sectors in Asia.

Singapore signed a free trade agreement with the Pacific Alliance during the 16th Pacific Alliance Summit, generating growth opportunities in agricultural trade, technology and infrastructure among other sectors.

Malaysia is setting up to become a global investment hub in the Southeast Asia region through recent government efforts at securing foreign investors through the National Investment Aspirations (NIA) framework. The country has already received a RM8.5 billion investment by Austria’s AT&S and new partnership with the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF) is expected to generate a total of RM2.6 billion potential investment and RM300 million worth of potential exports from France.

When IPCC report means business On 9th Aug 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN agency responsible for assessing climate change, released their sixth report which predicted, with high confidence, that global warming will indeed exceed the 1.5°C (2.7°F) Paris targets, maybe even as early as 2030. In case you aren’t aware, we […]

The recent endorsement of US President Joe Biden’s proposal for a global minimum corporate tax by the G7 leaders (United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, and Japan) signifies a major step forward for the cross-border global tax regime.

Recent corporate restructurings by Sembcorp Industries, CapitaLand, SPH, and Keppel Corp could be indicative of an impending slew of restructurings by local conglomerates.

NUS announces its 2 new graduate programs in fintech that will commence in the upcoming academic year, and ALTIOS discusses how this will strengthen Singapore’s fintech landscape.

The recent coup in Myanmar has upended assessments and expectations about Myanmar’s economic potential as well as business opportunities in the region. ALTIOS shares the expected impacts of the coup on key markets in ASEAN such as Vietnam and Singapore.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) issuing of digital full bank licenses to the Grab-Singtel consortium and tech giant Sea is a signifier of the liberalisation of the financial industry in Singapore and demonstrates how new players will take advantage of opportunities.

While ASEAN'S heavy dependence on tourism and external demand growth have hurt it in 2020, its GDP is sprojected to rebound at a higher rate than the rest of the world (6.2% vs. 5.2% YoY) which is a positive for the region. ALTIOS shares the implications for its clients and for regional opportunities.

The RCEP is a commercial-centric Free Trade Agreement signed on November 15th after 8 years of negotiation between 15 major countries in the Asia Pacific : China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and the 10 ASEAN countries.

Altios gives its highlights on the opportunities the EVTA is bringing to the Southeast Asian Region.

Chan Chun Sing encourages all companies to have a diverse workforce.

Strong expanding perspectives for companies willing to develop into South Eastern Asia.

Proud to collaborate with Keran in its recent expansion into Southeast Asia.