Standard Risk Global articles related to Asia.
Japan’s 40-year government bond yield breached 4% and the 10-year JGB yield hit a 29-year high of 2.80%, triggering a reassessment of Japan’s risk-free rate anchor. The yen simultaneously traded near…
USDJPY is testing the 162 breakout level as Fed-BOJ divergence hardens, with Morgan Stanley estimating $500bn in outstanding yen carry positions after the August 2024 partial unwind. The Bank of Japa…
Energy, FX, shipping, and sanctions exposure are converging into one transmission channel across Asian balance sheets.
The most consequential move in markets is not Friday's AI rout - it is the synchronized repricing of the G7 long end. Thirty-year sovereign yields have climbed to two-decade highs: the U.S. at 5.01…
What Simultaneous Conflicts in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Levant Mean for Asian Risk Calculus In the span of seven days—from February 28 to March 6, 2026—three previously distinct geopolitical crises converged into simultaneous kinetic conflict. Iran's nuclear escalation triggered US-Israel coordinated strikes. Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon accelerated. Pakistan launched massive airstrike operations against Afghanistan. The result: a systemic shock to global markets, energy flows, supply chains...
This report analyses the conflict's implications across three dimensions that matter for companies operating across borders: energy price trajectories under multiple scenarios, macroeconomic transmission channels across importing and exporting economies, and the specific impact on Asian cross-border investment in the Middle East and beyond. The core finding is a resilience shock disguised as an energy shock: Asia's energy-dependent manufacturing base faces a structural inflection point. Net energy exporters—the...
Global infrastructure finance is undergoing a structural pivot. Data centre capital expenditure surged 51% to $455 billion in 2024, while traditional transport infrastructure shrank from 45% to 22% of total deal value in a decade. Hyperscaler companies — Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta — now collectively outspend all multilateral development banks combined, with $370 billion in planned annual infrastructure investment for 2025. Simultaneously, Belt and Road Initiative lending rebounded to a record $213.5 billion...
The plumbing of international finance is breaking. Correspondent banking — the system through which banks in different countries clear cross-border payments on each other’s behalf — has been contracting steadily for over a decade. The reasons are well understood: escalating sanctions complexity, aggressive AML enforcement, FATF compliance pressure, and a cost-of-compliance calculus that makes many smaller corridors commercially unviable. The consequences are less widely appreciated. When a bank in Fiji loses its...
For corporate executives, general counsel and board directors—particularly those with China and Asia exposure—the new geometry of power alters the supply-chain maps on which cross-border transactions are built, shifts trade flows, and dramatically expands the universe of parties and sectors subject to sanctions or investment screening. BRICS expanded from five members in 2020 to eleven in 2025, with a further ten partner countries joining in January 2025. Intra-BRICS merchandise trade reached US$1.17 trillion in...
Japan's Nikkei 225 surged past 57,000 for the first time on February 9, closing 3.9% higher at 56,363.94, after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party captured 316 seats — the large…
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