
Power of Ideas
About the Asia Summit 2025 Power of Ideas
This Power of Ideas collection, featuring select speakers from the Asia Summit, explores how collaborations spur more purposeful partnerships.

A Golden Age of Purposeful and Unconventional Collaboration for Private Markets
Capital has always been powerful, but in today’s era of abundance, capital is no longer scarce. Differentiation in private markets will be determined not by the capacity to deploy capital, but by the ability to forge the most purposeful and...
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Future of Leadership: How Asian CEOs Drive Value-Creating Companies
What makes a great corporate leader? The answer has rarely been more complex. The future of leadership is about more than the long-term stewardship of a company’s core function. It will require dealing with technological disruption...
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Progress with Purpose: Fighting Criminalized Governance Together
Few forces are reshaping the global landscape more rapidly than the rise of transnational fraud. Nowhere is this clearer than in Southeast Asia. Scam centers in the Mekong region have evolved from isolated compounds into sprawling...
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How Can Collaboration Spur More Purposeful Partnerships?
Impact investing is a powerful catalyst in spurring collaboration and purposeful partnerships. In today’s interconnected world, the complexity and scale of global challenges—from climate change to social inequality—demand solutions that go...
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Asia’s Digital Sovereignty Is Not a Solitary Pursuit
Digital sovereignty has never been more important to the future of nearly 5 billion citizens in Asia Pacific than it is today. Governments and businesses across the region are increasingly concerned about the geopolitical flux that risks...
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Purposeful Partnerships: Unlocking Value Across Public and Private Credit
Private credit has matured from a nascent asset class into a critical area of capital markets, covering corporate credit, asset-based finance, and real estate debt across investment-grade and below-investment-grade credit. The result is a...
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From Deals to Cocreation: How Collaboration Spurs Purposeful Partnerships
Partnerships become purposeful when they move beyond transactions to cocreation, when diverse actors agree on the matters to address, share risk in ways that unlock capital at scale, and measure success by outcomes. In Central Asia, where...
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Designing Partnerships That Put Investors First
In today’s investment landscape, purposeful collaboration is essential. As we continue to operate in a complex operating environment with evolving client needs, collaboration drives innovation and relevance, unlocking opportunities and...
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Bridging Silos: How Purposeful Partnerships Set New Standards for Market
Collaborations can spur more purposeful partnerships by strengthening shared values, building mutual respect, and aligning on meaningful objectives to create impact beyond transactional gains. Purposeful partnerships are transformative...
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