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Osome Named Among Singapore’s Top Fintech Companies 2026

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– Recognition in Enterprise Fintech underscores Osome’s leadership in AI-enabled, expert-backed business management solutions –

SINGAPORE and HONG KONG, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Osome, an AI-enabled business management platform, has been recognised in the Enterprise Fintech category of the inaugural Singapore’s Top Fintech Companies 2026, an honours list of companies committed to excellence, innovation, and overall impact in the Fintech industry.

Every Osome experience combines human expertise with technology, said Tamas Gögge, Chief Product Officer of Osome.
Every Osome experience combines human expertise with technology, said Tamas Gögge, Chief Product Officer of Osome.

The Singapore’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 list, developed by Tech in Asia in collaboration with data firm Statista, evaluates Singapore-based Fintech companies based on the analysis and weighting of overarching and segment-specific KPIs. The inaugural ranking recognised 95 companies in Singapore across seven different market segments.

Since its founding, Osome has focused on supporting founders and their vision of growth, helping them overcome the burden of financial administrative tasks. Over the last two years, Osome has transformed customers’ experiences with an AI-enabled platform while maintaining its human touch. Through these improvements, Osome enables business owners to focus on customers, gain clearer visibility into their financials, and strengthen both growth and investor reporting.

“Every Osome experience combines human expertise with technology,” added Tamas Gögge, Chief Product Officer of Osome. “We are committed to empowering founders through technology and expert support. Our AI-enabled platform is constantly enhanced to provide entrepreneurs with greater visibility and control over their business performance, enabling informed decision-making in real time.”

“Osome has been like a constructive partner for us. They keep our finances sharp, allowing us to focus on building our business. Their collaborative and supportive approach makes a real difference and seeing them recognised in this list feels like a win for every founder who relies on them to stay sane and scale smart,” said Gitesh Athavale, co-founder of ZOQQ Pte Ltd, an Osome customer.

Another customer, Arjun Abraham Zacharria, Founder & CEO, EximPe, said: “Osome has been a game-changer for EximPe. Their AI-enabled platform, combined with expert support, has streamlined our financial and administrative processes, allowing us to focus more on growth. We are happy to have Osome as a trusted partner on our journey.”

Osome has expanded its capabilities across the world’s financial hubs, including Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. We are committed to enabling founders to manage and grow their businesses in the digital age. In each hub, we support, enable and empower founders through our ecosystem, creating offerings that deliver a win-win for both Osome and our partners.

About Osome

Osome is an AI-enabled business management platform that blends intuitive digital tools with expert local guidance to reduce customers’ administrative burdens. Since 2017, it has supported over 30,000 companies in Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, and the United Kingdom on their growth journeys with incorporation, accounting, and corporate secretarial services. It has established a presence in the United Arab Emirates with various specialised services. To date, Osome has processed over 5 million financial documents and generated more than 100,000 months of financial reporting.

 

REPOWERTEK Unveils “PRIME,” a Safer Lead-Acid Battery Regeneration Solution amid Global Lithium Fire Concerns

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The PRIME product series features the world’s only technology capable of regenerating lead-acid batteries without internal overheating. With regular maintenance and the use of a regenerator, lead-acid batteries can achieve up to 3 times the lifespan of typical use.

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Amid growing global concerns over lithium-ion battery fires, often referred to as “lithium fire phobia”, South Korea’s leading lead-acid battery regeneration company, REPOWERTEK, has unveiled its groundbreaking fifth-generation “PRIME Series” regenerator, along with an innovative industrial workshop and platform business model, marking a new chapter in the global battery regeneration industry. The PRIME system restores batteries without generating internal heat or damage, extending battery life by 200–300% and offering a safer, more economical alternative to lithium-based energy storage.

Amid intensifying global competition in energy storage, lithium-ion batteries are increasingly considered “ticking time bombs,” prone to fire, thermal runaway, and toxic gas emissions—a trend now described as “lithium phobia.” Even so-called safe LFP (LiFePO₄) batteries carry risks of hydrogen fluoride release and explosions under thermal stress, highlighting the urgent need for fundamentally safer solutions.

PRIME addresses this critical gap. Over more than a decade of research and development, and five product generations, REPOWERTEK has exported PRIME to over 70 countries. The system safely and repeatedly restores industrial lead-acid batteries for ESS, UPS, and traction applications across telecommunications, data centers, hospitals, shipping, railways, and defense. Its proprietary high-frequency pulse algorithm ensures stable battery performance for up to 10 years while preventing overheating or degradation.

“PRIME is more than a technology,” said a REPOWERTEK spokesperson. “It is a comprehensive platform redefining industrial battery management, improving safety, sustainability, and cost efficiency worldwide.”

The platform integrates battery subscription and leasing models, PRIME maintenance services, equipment rental, lead recycling, and strategic partnerships with manufacturers, creating recurring revenue streams and a fully circular, sustainable closed-loop ecosystem.

Inspired by automotive maintenance practices, the PRIME system incorporates scheduled restoration cycles. After initial regeneration at roughly two-thirds of a battery’s service life, follow-up treatments every 12–18 months restore capacity, reduce total ownership costs, and maintain fire-free operation over the battery’s extended lifespan.

In 2025, REPOWERTEK showcased its technology at major global exhibitions, including Middle East Energy (Dubai), The Smarter E Europe (Munich), RE+ (Las Vegas), and Smart Energy Week (Tokyo). The company’s next appearance will be at Solar & Battery Asia 2025, November 5–7, at KINTEX (Hall 5 – Booth D5) in Goyang, South Korea.

REPOWERTEK is now seeking regional joint venture partners and investors to expand its industrial battery regeneration and maintenance platform across the ESS, UPS, and traction battery markets.

For partnership or investment inquiries, visit www.regenerator.co.kr or contact REPOWERTEK INC. directly. (prime@repowertek.com)

Trend Micro Launches End-to-End Protection for Agentic AI Systems with NVIDIA

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Extends Agentic AI Safety from infrastructure to application with agentless EDR and integrated guardrails to secure next-generation AI factories


HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 5 November 2025 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced a new integration with NVIDIA BlueField, which embeds protection directly into the data center layer for more secure and scalable AI factories. This new offering enables organizations to deploy AI faster and reduce risks across multi-tenant AI clouds, all while meeting stringent compliance requirements.

To learn more about the combination of Trend Vision One™ Endpoint Security and NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, please visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/business/ai/factory.html

NVIDIA BlueField data processing unit (DPU) is a processor designed to offload, accelerate, and isolate infrastructure and cybersecurity tasks from the CPU. Trend Vision OneTM Endpoint Security (AI Factory Endpoint Detection and Response) is deployed on NVIDIA BlueField to collect and monitor host and network information, and correlate with Trend threat intelligence to detect suspicious behavior. Complementing this BlueField integration, Trend is also among the first cybersecurity vendors to validate its solution on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, bringing purpose-built, enterprise-class security to AI factories.

This will also now include AI factories in federal agencies and high-assurance organizations, as Trend is included in the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design, which provides full-stack, end-to-end guidance for deploying AI workloads while meeting the compliance needs of regulated industries.

Rachel Jin, Chief Enterprise Platform Officer at Trend Micro: “Agentic AI promises to unleash a new era of productivity, efficiency, and business agility, but only if we build it on secure foundations. That’s why Trend is committed to advancing AI safety through innovation in zero-trust enforcement and AI-native threat detection. Our combined offering with NVIDIA will establish a new market standard for peak performance deployments.”

Ofir Arkin, Sr. Distinguished Architect for Cybersecurity at NVIDIA: “As enterprises deploy AI factories, they need to secure large-scale, high-speed infrastructures without slowing innovation. By integrating with NVIDIA BlueField, Trend Vision One establishes a new class of endpoint detection and response for AI factories, combining hardware-enforced isolation with real-time threat insights to safeguard critical AI assets at the data center layer.”

According to Gartner®, “AI infrastructure security includes the built-in security features of the underlying technology stack, such as vector and graph databases, and third-party security controls that could be easily expanded by incumbent vendors to cover AI security use cases.”*

Building on this foundation, Trend is also extending protection to the application layer of Agentic AI. Trend Vision One™ AI Application Security (AI Guard) integrates natively with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, part of the NVIDIA NeMo framework, a scalable rail orchestration solution for ensuring the security, safety, accuracy, and topical relevance of LLM interactions. This integration streamlines how teams define, test, and orchestrate AI guardrails, including multimodal rails through a microservice and simple APIs. This joint capability enables security teams to align guardrails with enterprise policy, map them to key risks, such as prompt injection, data leakage, tool or agent abuse, jailbreaks, and hallucinations, and enforce them consistently from development to runtime.

The platform ingests guardrail telemetry for observability, risk scoring, and incident response, then automates policy-as-code updates and playbook-driven remediation across the AI stack and cloud. This combined approach detects credential dumps, reverse shells, and other advanced threats while strengthening Agentic AI safety in three critical areas:

Content Moderation: Filters toxic or biased AI outputs without slowing inference.

Security: NVIDIA BlueField-accelerated, hardware-enforced isolation prevents prompt injection and jailbreak attempts.

Privacy: Built-in encryption, GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA compliance, and zero-trust segmentation.

* Gartner, Use an AI Security Platform to Launch Your AI Security Strategy, Dennis Xu, Kevin Schmidt, Jeremy D’Hoinne, 26 February 2025

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About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s AI-powered cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, Trend’s platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 70 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. .

Truth-seeking AI creates world’s largest encyclopaedic knowledge portal – 6,000 times larger than Wikipedia

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FONTAINEBLEAU, France and SINGAPORE and SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — INSEAD, The Business School for the World, today announced the launch of Botipedia, the world’s largest encyclopaedic knowledge portal.

Encyclopaedias have come a long way, from the printed editions of the 1800s and CD ROMs in the 1990s, to today’s online crowd-edited Wikipedia. So, what’s next?

Powered by proprietary AI, Botipedia leverages hundreds of algorithms to mimic the work of legions of humans to create Wikipedia entries. Every entry is processed by the Dynamic Multi-method Generation (DMG) technique, backed by unique datasets consisting of a vast curated library of archives and satellite feeds that provide high quality, verifiable data. Botipedia directly quotes reliable sources or fully generates original content using natural language generation techniques that are designed to avoid hallucination or intrinsic biases.

In Botipedia, no subject, event, language or geography is too obscure to merit an article. While Wikipedia has some 64 million English articles, Botipedia generates over “400 billion” entries in over 100 languages.

“We are creating Botipedia to provide everyone with equal access to information, with no language left behind,” says Phil Parker, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science, creator of Botipedia and holder of one of the pioneering patents in the field of generative AI. “We focus on content grounded in data and sources with full provenance, allowing the user to see as many perspectives as possible, as opposed to one potentially biased source.

Botipedia’s technology does not limit itself to large language models (LLMs) or similar generative methods. Rather, each form of output relies on a customised method. For example, text or tables relating to weather, are generated for all possible longitudes and latitudes using geo-spatial methods. This approach has the advantage of dramatically increasing both the quantity and the accuracy of content available.

Botipedia enables users to find the materials they need to create new or updated articles faster, especially across underserved languages. In Wikipedia for example, there are 7 million articles in English but only 40,000 in Swahili. This limits Swahili speakers’ access to over 99 percent of Wikipedia’s content. Botipedia’s use of DMG has a secondary benefit of being more sustainable, operating at a fraction of the processing power compared to GPU-intensive methodologies, such as ChatGPT.

“Botipedia is one of many initiatives of the Human and Machine Intelligence Institute (HUMII) that we are establishing at INSEAD,” says Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation at INSEAD. “It is a practical application that builds on INSEAD-linked IP to help people make better decisions with knowledge powered by technology. We want technologies that enhance the quality and meaning of our work and life, to retain human agency and value in the age of intelligence.”  

Botipedia was launched during the INSEAD AI Forum in Singapore and currently accessible via invitation only, with full public access to follow. To request access, visit here.  Watch demo video here.

Contact: news@insead.edu

Multifonds Helps DBS to Drive Scalable Automation and Future Growth in the Region’s Asset Management Industry

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Multifonds enables the bank to manage traditional and alternative funds on a single fund accounting platform

SINGAPORE, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Multifonds today announced that DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank by assets, has gone live with Multifonds Fund Accounting Platform in Singapore, Hong Kong SAR and Indonesia. The solution was successfully implemented in fifteen months by a joint DBS and Multifonds team.

Multifonds is a single fund accounting platform that supports traditional and alternative funds and combines asset servicing, position keeping, valuation and accounting functions across the bank’s key Asian markets. The fully automated solution enables DBS to streamline its end-to-end operations and achieve high rates of STP to improve service quality and support client growth in the region’s most dynamic markets.

DBS is the first client in Asia to adopt the latest version of Multifonds solution. This empowers DBS to significantly step up their operational efficiency with Workflow and Exception Manager (WEM) and streamline the NAV process by the Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency systems integration.

Multifonds was selected by DBS after a rigorous evaluation process and detailed proof of concept demonstrating the platform’s capability to handle the specificities of each market, with a truly multi-asset coverage including complex derivatives across Credit, FX, IR and EQ, ETFs, and PEs. This supports a wide range of fund structures and requirements, such as advanced PL allocation per share class or master segment structure with rebates fees.

In addition, Multifonds, in collaboration with DBS, is actively contributing to the development of regulatory reports tailored to the dynamic Indonesia market, helping to ensure that these reports remain current and aligned with the latest regulatory changes. These insights help the bank and its clients keep abreast of the evolving financial landscape.

Oded Weiss, CEO of Multifonds, commented:
“We are delighted to be chosen as the fund accounting platform for such a prestigious and world-leading bank. DBS has established a global reputation for fund servicing, and Multifonds’ modern technology platform will help the bank deliver highly flexible and client-centric solutions with unmatched scalability and efficiency. Multifonds is looking forward to continuing its partnership with DBS Securities Services, strengthening the bank’s technology capabilities, and developing new functionalities to meet the needs of other markets in Asia.”

About Multifonds:
Multifonds is a single, global platform supporting fund accounting, investor servicing, and NAV oversight for both traditional and alternative funds. Visit: www.multifonds.com

 

Agoda Collaborates with the Philippines Department of Tourism to Enhance Hospitality through Technology

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MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Digital travel platform Agoda has partnered with the Philippines Department of Tourism (DoT) to launch the inaugural edition of its exclusive Executive Masterclass platform, under the theme of ‘Leadership for Resilience’. The one-day session was held for 72 participants including DoT senior officials, hotel associations, and hotel partners from across the Philippines, focusing on capacity building and inclusive growth in tourism.

The Masterclass engaged senior executives in various knowledge-sharing and interactive modules aimed at enhancing their ability to leverage technological solutions, improving service offerings, and supporting economic growth through collaborative efforts. The program underscores Agoda’s commitment to empowering the local ecosystem through data-driven decision-making and integration of advanced technologies like AI.

“We are thrilled to have collaborated with the Philippines Department of Tourism to host the Executive Masterclass,” said Mike Hwang, Country Director for the Philippines at Agoda. “By equipping our partners and the industry with the tools and insights needed to thrive in today’s dynamic market, we support the vision of seeing the world for less and encourage shared growth for stakeholders across the Philippines.”

Verna C. Buensuceso, Undersecretary for Tourism Development Planning, from the Philippine Department of Tourism commended the initiative, stating, “The theme “Leadership and Resilience” resonates deeply especially at this time when natural calamities and other disruptions have affected countries worldwide. It reminds us that true leadership encompasses guiding our stakeholders and communities through uncertainty, embracing innovation and adversity and ensuring that recovery and growth are inclusive and sustainable.”

The event serves as a fitting prelude to preparations for the Philippines’ hosting of ASEAN as it embodies the same spirit of collaboration, innovation and shared leadership among government, the private sector and host communities that define partnerships in the travel and tourism industry. 

Leveraging Agoda’s extensive network of accommodations, the session reinforced the strong ties between Agoda and the Philippines Department of Tourism, creating a fertile ground for growth and advancement. With a shared commitment to innovation and collaboration, this Masterclass establishes the foundation for sustained partnership within the tourism sector.

National Assembly Advances Dialogue on Sustainable Health Financing in Laos

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National Assembly Strengthens Parliamentary Leadership on Sustainable Health and Immunisation Financing

The National Assembly of Laos has convened the second in a national series of workshops on “The Economics of Health – Financing Primary Health Care and Immunization in Laos.” Organized by the Assembly’s Committee on Social and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), the event received technical support from Health Poverty Action (HPA), with contributions from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) and the University of Health Sciences (UHS).

Held in Vang Vieng, the workshop brought together members of the National Assembly’s Committees on Social and Cultural Affairs and on Planning, Finance and Audit, along with senior officials from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and key development partners. The goal was to identify coordinated policy actions to ensure sustainable health financing for Laos.

The meeting built on the first workshop held in September 2025, “Catalyzing Parliamentary Leadership for Health Security and National Prosperity,” and advanced dialogue on practical measures to guarantee continued funding for immunization and primary health care.

Sustaining Progress in Health

Over the past decade, Laos has achieved significant gains in public health. Under-five mortality fell from 62 to 35 per 1,000 live births between 2016 and 2022, while HPV vaccine coverage surpassed 98 percent among ten-year-old girls. The country has also maintained its polio-free status since 2000. Policy and procurement reforms, including the switch to a new pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) and adoption of a single-dose HPV schedule, have saved an estimated USD 700,000 annually.

Yet financial pressures are mounting. Starting in 2026, Laos will require more than USD 3 million each year for vaccine procurement. With external assistance declining and public investment in health still limited, participants warned that essential immunization services could be at risk without new domestic financing strategies.

Deepening Fiscal Dialogue

The second workshop focused on fiscal and policy approaches to close the vaccine-financing gap. Central to discussions was the need for stronger coordination between the MoH, MoF, and the National Assembly to ensure predictable funding for immunization and primary health care.

Participants emphasized that effective budget allocation and efficient use of resources are vital to sustain public health achievements. Without a clear fiscal strategy, gains in child health and disease prevention could be jeopardized. The workshop called for urgent budget reforms and practical advocacy tools to support parliamentary engagement in the 2026 budget cycle.

It was noted that a rise in unvaccinated children would result in significant economic losses from preventable disease outbreaks, as the cost of emergency response and treatment would far exceed the cost of prevention through routine vaccination.

Key sessions explored the inclusion of dedicated vaccine-procurement budget lines and better coordination between the MoH and MoF to raise overall health spending to at least nine percent of total government expenditure. Participants debated how best to institutionalize separate vaccine budgets but agreed on the importance of predictable allocations.

Discussions also considered domestic resource mobilization through reforms in tobacco and alcohol taxation, integration of health insurance and social protection systems, and the economic return on vaccines, estimated at up to USD 54 in benefits for every USD 1 invested.

Voices from the Workshop

“Our role as parliamentarians is to ensure that the national budget reflects the real needs of the people. Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective investments we can make in human capital and national prosperity,” said Bounta Thepphavong, Chairman of the Committee on Social and Cultural Affairs, National Assembly of Laos.

Thet Lynn, Country Director of Health Poverty Action Laos, added, “This workshop marks an important step toward strengthening collaboration among the National Assembly, the Ministries of Health and Finance, and development partners. By developing practical toolkits and sharing fiscal evidence, we can help parliamentarians advocate effectively for sustainable health financing. As international support transitions, domestic financing must keep pace to prevent disruptions in vaccine delivery. The cost of inaction would far outweigh the investment needed today.”

Next Steps

Outcomes from the workshop will guide the 2026 national budget deliberations and support the development of a Parliamentary Toolkit on Sustainable Health Financing. This resource will help Members of Parliament assess fiscal options, meet co-financing obligations, and advocate for greater domestic investment in immunization and primary health care.

Participants stressed the need to increase domestic financing for immunization to at least USD 20 per child, equivalent to around USD 3.3 million annually, to safeguard public health and economic stability.

They warned that recent experiences, such as a costly measles outbreak that claimed children’s lives, demonstrate the price of underinvestment. Without timely action, Laos risks reversing the hard-won immunization coverage gains that have protected millions of children and strengthened national resilience.

Increasing Competition, Economic Slowdown and Cyber Threats are Reshaping Asia’s Business Landscape: Aon Survey

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  • “Failure to attract and retain talent” ranks among the top ten risks for Asia reflecting persistent talent shortages
  • “Increasing Competition” and “Exchange Rate Fluctuation” risks surge in importance
  • “Geopolitical Volatility” joins the top five future risks, highlighting the growing instability across regions

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 5 November 2025 – Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, today released the Asia findings of its 2025 Global Risk Management Survey, revealing the region is grappling with intensifying competition and economic uncertainty as organisations confront a new era of disruption and transformation. The survey, which gathered insights from nearly 3,000 risk managers, C-suite leaders, and executives across 63 countries, highlights how Asia’s risk priorities are shifting in response to technological, economic and geopolitical forces.

Asia’s Top Risks: Competition Surges, Cyber Threats Persist

“Cyber Attacks/Data Breach” remains the number one risk across Asia. However, in 2025 “Increasing Competition” and “Exchange Rate Fluctuation” have risen sharply, reflecting the region’s dynamic markets and heightened exposure to global financial volatility. “Increasing Competition” is now in business leaders top three key risks for the region, a significant jump from eighth place in 2023.

Asia’s risk landscape also features “Weather/Natural Disasters” as a prominent concern, ranking eighth. This issue is more pronounced in Asia compared to other regions, underscoring Asia’s vulnerability to climate-related disruptions. Additionally, “Failure to Attract and Retain Top Talent” rounds out the top ten risks — a challenge that does not appear among the global top ten, highlighting unique workforce pressures in the region.

The survey found that 52.1 percent of businesses reported losses due to “Exchange Rate Fluctuations”, followed by 45.4 percent from “Economic Slowdown” and 43.6 percent “Increasing Competition”. Workforce challenges persist, with 30.4 percent of businesses reporting losses due to “Failure to Attract and Retain Top Talent”.

“Asia’s business environment is transforming rapidly. Digitalisation, shifting economic currents and increasing competition are reshaping priorities,” said Terence Williams, head of Commercial Risk, APAC at Aon. “Today’s challenges are more interconnected than ever — cyber threats can disrupt supply chains; economic volatility can impact talent retention and climate events can trigger regulatory changes overnight. The insights from Aon’s 2025 Global Risk Management Survey offer leaders clarity amid complexity, helping them benchmark and focus risk strategies.”

Asia’s Top Ten Business Risks in 2025

According to the survey, the top ten risks for organisations in Asia are:

  1. Cyber Attacks/Data Breach
  2. Economic Slowdown/Slow Recovery
  3. Increasing Competition
  4. Business Interruption
  5. Supply Chain or Distribution Failure
  6. Commodity Price Risk/Scarcity of Materials
  7. Exchange Rate Fluctuation
  8. Weather/Natural Disasters
  9. Regulatory/Legislative Changes
  10. Failure to Attract or Retain Top Talent

The survey highlights the risks facing Asian organisations and clear opportunities for resilience and growth. While risk awareness is rising, most organisations have yet to quantify their exposures or leverage advanced analytics.

Risk management planning remains inconsistent across the region:

  • 24.3 percent of businesses have assessed cyber risk,
  • 18.8 percent have developed continuity plans,
  • 25.6 percent have a risk management plan for “Cyber Attacks/Data Breaches”.

For “Economic Slowdown/Slow Recovery”:

  • 27.8 percent have assessed the risk,
  • 16.7 percent have continuity plans,
  • 24.4 percent have risk management plans.

For “Failure to Attract or Retain Top Talent”:

  • 32.5 percent have assessed the risk,
  • 16.9 percent have continuity plans,
  • 34.9 percent have risk management plans.

While most organisations in Asia recognise the importance of risk management, there is still room to strengthen and formalise their approach — unlocking greater resilience and future growth.

“In a world where disruption is the new normal, understanding the intersection and velocity of risks are essential for creating sustainable success,” said Adam Peckman, global head of cyber risk consulting and head of Cyber Solutions for APAC at Aon. “To mitigate the risks of Cyber Attacks and Economic Slowdown, organisations must move away from a reactive approach and instead embed cyber resilience and financial agility into their core strategies. This means adopting advanced analytics, scenario planning, robust continuity frameworks and continually evaluating the role of risk capital to manage volatility.”

Future Risks Reflect the Growing Influence of Interconnected Megatrends
Aon’s 2025 Global Risk Management Survey also provides a forward-looking perspective on the risks business leaders expect to be most critical by 2028. Increasing competition and cyber risk remain the top concerns for the future, while geopolitical volatility joins the top five future risks, reflecting the growing instability across regions, with implications for supply chains, regulatory environments and financial performance.

Asia’s Top Five Future Business Risks by 2028

  1. Increasing Competition
  2. Cyber Attacks/Data Breach
  3. Economic Slowdown/Slow Recovery
  4. Geopolitical Volatility
  5. Business Interruption

“Looking ahead, the interplay of increasing competition and geopolitical volatility are expected to dominate the regional risk landscape. Businesses should prepare by adopting more predictive risk intelligence with AI-powered indicators and building more resilient supply chains. Innovative approaches to raising capital for managing risks – such as captives and parametric products – will be key. By focusing on both immediate disruptive threats and emerging risk trends, organisations can build resilience and unlock new opportunities in a rapidly evolving market,” Williams added.

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