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James Bladen

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James Bladen joined Alpha Southeast Asia in 2015. He has written on a wide range of issues covering capital markets, Islamic finance and M&A. He worked as a consultant in Indonesia (2013-2017) and moved to New York in 2020 where he continues to cover Southeast Asia.
Palm Oil

Indonesia Push to Boost Lending Risks Backfiring

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Indonesia’s efforts to revive economic growth by bringing down lending rates are at risk of backfiring as they make banks the worst performers in...
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FinTech/DigFin

Indonesia Leads Rout in Asian Shares

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Even though Asia is widely expected to emerge from the global economic crisis ahead of the West, the region’s financial-services industry may turn to...
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FDI/Trade Flows

Indonesia Budget Spending Starts to Help

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Unemployed for much of 2015, Firman Agung now works for the Indonesian government, racing to dig a drainage ditch through his village before monsoon...
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Palm Oil

Asia weathering year of the perfect storm

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In a two-part series on ways Asian economies have weathered the economic crisis, Tai Hui, the Regional Head of Research for Southeast Asia for...
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Institutional Investments

Widodo Seeks Indonesian Reboot as Currency Pressure Mounts

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo is going for a reboot. The president, known as Jokowi, revamped his economic team in a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday as...
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ESG

Transparency vital for world-class capital market

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THIS year certainly presents a window of opportunity for Malaysia to raise the efficacy and integrity of its capital market. As a low-beta market, Malaysia...
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Banking

Top Philippine Pension Fund Seeks More Stocks as Bonds Sink

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The largest Philippine pension fund wants to increase the amount it can invest in stocks as returns from bonds shrink. The nation’s benchmark equities...
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Counter Narrative

The Year 2021 According to BlackRock

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Fiscal Cliff: A huge policy blunder has been averted (for now), but fiscal tightening will take place. With additional negotiations to come, markets will be...
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Counter Narrative

Upside with Rupiah Bonds

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There are two reasons investors love Indonesian local currency bonds: yields are amongst the highest in Asia, and the government is doing its best...
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Open Letter to....

The myth of the unbankable

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Farmers, street vendors, low-salaried clerical workers: With a few exceptions, banks in emerging economies have traditionally regarded this large group of lower-income customers as...
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