In the face of saturated local markets, banks in Japan, South Korea and Singapore are increasingly looking elsewhere in the region.

Japan’s digital payments vision has been slow to get off the ground.

As some sectors struggle, banks’ provisions for loan losses are equivalent to just 0.3% of assets.

G-SIBs can afford core capital ratios to fall by 5 percentage points before eating into capital buffers, according to Capital Economics.

As Asia grapples with the aftermath of Covid-19, previous challenges have returned to the fore. 

Lacking both resources and a youthful population, Japan is targeting African countries' nascent markets and plentiful commodities with generous development finance and infrastructure partnerships. Adrienne Klasa reports.

Japan's SoftBank Group, fronted by Masayoshi Son, has a dizzying number of investments dotted all around the world. Where this will take the debt-laden company is the topic of much debate. Adrienne Klasa assesses the situation.