Metropolitan Asia

The structural difference between someone earning income and someone building wealth often comes down to this: one fills every quiet moment, the other guards it.

EBANX will open its Singapore APAC headquarters on March 24, backed by a full MAS Major Payment Institution license and 48% payment volume growth in 2025.

When Dubai goes dark, the Asia-Europe corridor has to find a new path. Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific are structurally positioned to absorb that shift — but rising operating costs are applying pressure from the other direction at the same time.

Qantas suspended its famous non-stop QF9 Perth–London service from March 4, 2026. The Boeing 787-9 could no longer sustain full payload on the detour around closed Iranian and Iraqi airspace. Three extra hours and a Singapore fuel stop later, one of aviation's most ambitious routes is operating on a very different map.

Mastercard Move and Bank of Shanghai establish bi-directional cross-border payment flows between China and global markets, adding domestic bank account rails to Mastercard's existing China network.

Cherry trees are beginning to bloom, bringing the country closer to peak sakura viewing.

DBS has extended SecureFX to all corporate customers in Singapore, giving businesses of all sizes access to FX rate-locking for cross-border payments through DBS IDEAL.

The Asian thermal coal benchmark rose 13.2 percent in March. LNG prices doubled. The spread between the two fuels is now driving every grid dispatch decision across Southeast Asia.

Brent hit $119 on March 9. The IEA announced 400 million barrels on March 11. By March 17, Brent was back above $100. The Strait is still closed.

No investment quantum or contracted project value was disclosed alongside the March 16 announcement. For investors and analysts tracking Cape EMS's CEB 2.0 progress, the next material data point will be evidence of anchor customers and Cape Renewables revenue appearing in the income statement.