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Remote working means that word of mouth is out and instant messenger is in.

Private banking is a business based on personal relationships and trust – and it’s hard to truly connect with someone on Zoom. So long as the pandemic persists, this presents a substantial challenge to wealth managers, who can only grow their businesses by bonding with wealthy clients and winning new mandates.

The world sees Rodrigo Duterte as a hothead populist, waging a bloody drugs war against insurgents, but to most of his compatriots, he’s the reformer the country needs. His aims, including shaking up taxes to pay for infrastructure and targeting an energy revolution, are bold. His choices for the crucial finance ministry and central bank roles look sound. But will they succeed?

Since dealing with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan as the Philippines’ finance minister, Cesar Purisima has become one of the most eloquent spokesmen for how finance can help nations vulnerable to climate change.

Regulators had high hopes when China’s free trade zone bond market was launched last year, but there are now doubts about the market’s future.

A dispute with investors means that adding capital raising to direct listings won’t happen as quickly as stock exchanges would like.

While the FX non-deliverable forward (NDF) market has demonstrated its resilience in the face of a spike in spreads during the early stages of coronavirus, there are concerns over its capacity to destabilize onshore markets in emerging economies.

The region’s affluent classes are well served by traditional banks. But fintech firms hope to gain a foothold in financial services through customers that have been left behind.

Gone are the days when banks could coast along on processing letters of credit and servicing clients’ occasional foreign exchange transactions. To meet the increasingly complex needs of their corporate clients, the top Asian banks have had to rethink their service models.

We asked corporate treasury officials across Asia to rank their banking partners for quality of execution capabilities and quality of relationship in six key business areas: capital markets, cash management, credit, rates, foreign exchange and trade finance, creating a total of 12 categories in each market covered. The rankings published here are overall results based on the banks with the highest number of first-placed rankings in each market; in the event of a tie, the number of second-placed rankings determines the winner, then the number of third-place rankings, and so on. We received more than 1,500 votes from Asian corporates during the survey period.

Timberland investor New Forests is encouraging Singapore to become Asia’s hub for impact investing, while solving the region’s annual pollution problem.

Investors ate up China’s dim sum bonds and snacked on India’s masala notes. Could a taste of Indonesia’s nasi goreng bonds be the next thing to satiate emerging market investors’ appetite?