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The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), globally hailed as the gold standard for free trade agreement, has now been in force for five years.

With Brunei’s ratification and implementation of the CPTPP on 12 July 2023, and the signing of the UK Accession Protocol on 16 July 2023, the CPTPP currently provides a market of 500 million people, while collectively generating 15.4% of global GDP.

Cold storage may still be a specialised segment within the logistics sector, but owners, developers, and investors have been attracted by its strong demand drivers and appealing fundamentals, including stable cash flows, longer lease terms, and the opportunity for portfolio diversification.

With the real estate needs for such facilities rapidly evolving, the increasingly complex requirements are raising the barriers to entry into the niche sector, though it’s done little to slow its rapid growth.

Tay & Partners has released 3 new articles over the month of December. Click on the links below to read the articles.

From the widespread embrace of digital transformation to the burgeoning importance of cybersecurity and the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which will only continue to gather pace in the new year, many emerging trends have impacted the country’s business landscape.

This article lists some of the key business and technology trends we foresee to open a new chapter for Malaysian companies in the year ahead.

Standard Chartered in its FX 2024 outlook, expects ASEAN FX to recover against the USD this year. However, the bank expects any turns in the negative drivers to be gradual and laborious, a theme likely to be repeated throughout the year. A key factor is that US rates are likely to stay meaningfully higher than regional rates versus historical trends. It thinks the Fed will cut by only 50bps in H2-2024, while markets have priced in an aggressive six cuts of 25bps each.

The term greenwashing was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986 as a rebuke to companies that claimed to be environmentally friendly without offering any evidence to back up their claims

Whether you call it propaganda or greenwashing, the tactics worked well for a time, and myths around individual responsibility for global crises persist today. However, thanks to the rise of the internet and social media and the proliferation of data on ESG performance, the tide seems to be turning.