The Nikkei 225 closed at its all-time high of 58,850 on Friday, a milestone that eclipsed the previous bubble-era peak. On the same day, the 30-year Japanese government bond yield reached levels that Japan’s fixed-income regulatory framework has not encountered since the framework was established. The JGB market’s infrastructure, including the Bank of Japan’s bond…
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority unveiled the Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, establishing what the government described as the first comprehensive governance guide for autonomous AI systems published by any national authority. The framework, announced by Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine…
January 1, 2026 brought a cluster of regulatory changes in China that, individually, might be described as incremental. Taken together, they represent a material shift in how foreign companies must structure their operations, manage their data, and price their risk. The most technically significant change is the new Value-Added Tax Law, which replaced the existing…
