China’s regulators, it seems, are on the attack. Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, announced recently that he’d resign if he wasn’t able to discipline the banking system. Under his leadership, the CBRC is stepping up scrutiny of the role of trust companies and other financial institutions in helping China’s banks circumvent lending restrictions. The People’s Bank ...

Like an Instagram filter that brightens an otherwise hazy photograph, the lens through which Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is looking at Philippine conglomerates might be a tad too radiant. The investment bank published a research report Monday calling on investors to show some love to the nation’s largest business dynasties, which it said are poised to benefit from rising consumer ...

To adapt Thomas Pynchon, if the wrong question is asked, the answer doesn’t matter. Today, the world seems to be consciously framing its energy problems in a way that avoids the right questions, and thus true solutions. Human advancement is intrinsically linked to the development of motorized power driven by fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the resource itself is finite and has ...