Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific is a geographical region encompassing countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Oceania. It is a major economic hub and a significant market for global corporations and technology adoption.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to its rapid adoption of financial technologies like stablecoins, its role in the expansion of AI companies, and its vulnerability to economic shifts despite current growth.

Latest on Asia Pacific

• Nearly half of Asia Pacific consumers open to stablecoins within five years, Visa says
• OpenAI hires former Elastic and Snowflake exec Sanjay Deshmukh to lead Asia Pacific sales
• Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2026 nominees include Yeo Yann Yann, The Violinist and other Singaporean co-productions
• AI boom shields Asia Pacific, but Moody’s warns the cushion is thinning
• Clear Street launches electronic execution across Europe and Asia Pacific
• Climate change and AI add to pressures on Asia Pacific’s health systems
• Asia Pacific's economy is being held up by a powerful but increasingly narrow engine: artificial intelligence.
• the region has so far avoided a sharper slowdown because demand for AI-related hardware continues to lift exports from some of its most technology-heavy economies.
• Visa survey says nearly half of APAC consumers open to using stablecoins by 2031
• Southeast Asia urged to step up war against AI-powered scams through data sharing
• AI costs slowing business adoption – Boomi exec

Connections

19 entities linked to Asia Pacific across the news graph.