Cross-border investment
Global FDI trends, cross-border projects, and regional competitiveness shifts.
fDi Intelligence launches the selection for the European Cities and Regions of the Future 2027 ranking, reflecting changes in global capital's evaluation criteria for European investment destinations. This article analyzes the industrial logic behind the ranking categories, the regional competition landscape, and long-term FDI trends.
fDi Intelligence has launched the 2027 European Cities and Regions of the Future ranking, revealing the new competitive landscape and trends for attracting foreign investment within Europe through six major indicators.
Oliver Wyman's ranking of 1,500 cities shows that Asia is becoming the new global growth center. Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and other cities rank among the top, with business density, infrastructure, and innovation ecosystems driving capital eastward.
Based on this week's global private equity M&A dynamics, this provides an in-depth analysis of structural trends in capital flows toward energy infrastructure, clean technology, technology, and healthcare, revealing the investment logic under geopolitical and industrial restructuring.
Although Bangladesh's FDI grew by 45% to $1.8 billion in 2025, making it the fastest-growing in South Asia, its scale of attracting investment still lags behind African economies such as Uganda and Ghana. Behind this are deep structural changes, including the shift of global capital from traditional manufacturing to resources and energy, differences in policy reform intensity, and the restructuring of industrial chains.
In Q2 2026, global M&A transaction volume reached $1.3 trillion, surging 35.3% year-on-year but declining 18.4% quarter-on-quarter. A handful of mega-deals inflated the total, while deal numbers remained flat, signaling an actual market cooldown. Rising interest rates and antitrust easing reshaped deal structures: private equity receded, and strategic buyers took the lead. Industry valuations diverged markedly, with healthcare commanding a premium and energy representing a value trough. This article analyzes the underlying logic and regional differences of this M&A season from the perspective of global capital flows.
India's net FDI plummeted from $28 billion to $1 billion in two years, even though total inflows hit a record high of $94.5 billion. This article analyzes the global capital allocation logic behind this trend and its implications for India's long-term economic growth from the perspectives of capital flow structure, profit repatriation, investor exit, and the declining share of manufacturing investment.
In the first half of 2026, global activist investor activity increased by 5% year-on-year, with particularly strong momentum in the US market. This article analyzes how activist investors drive M&A waves from the perspectives of global capital flows, industrial restructuring, and AI-driven dynamics, and explores their long-term impact on regional economic patterns and industrial chain reconfiguration.
In 2025, Malaysia's net FDI grew 41%, but manufacturing investment plummeted while services surged. This article analyzes the deep logic of this structural shift from the perspectives of global capital flows, value chain restructuring, and digital economy development.
According to the latest PwC report, global transportation and logistics M&A activities have rebounded significantly, but capital is no longer chasing scale, instead focusing on scarce, irreplaceable high-quality assets, such as cold chain, ports, cross-border infrastructure, and AI-enabled visibility platforms.
In 2024, the United States attracted $279 billion in foreign investment, more than twice that of China. The flow of capital is not accidental, but the result of competition in technological depth and industrial ecosystem.
According to the latest report from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the global green economy's market value surpassed $10 trillion for the first time in 2025, outpacing the broader market in growth. This article analyzes the structural drivers behind this milestone from the perspectives of capital flows, regional competition, and industrial logic.
In 2025, foreign direct investment in Europe generally declined, but London, leveraging its talent, financing, and policy stability, achieved 5% growth in the digital technology sector, continuing to lead European cities.
India's net FDI plummeted from $44 billion to less than $1 billion, but total inflows remain strong. This article breaks down the structure of FDI, revealing deep-seated issues such as the dominance of financial investors, the shrinking of manufacturing investment, and the acceleration of capital outflows, while assessing their impact on India's strategy for the rise of its manufacturing sector.
The Philippines’ apparent growth in investment commitments masks the structural problem of continued weakening actual foreign capital inflows. As manufacturing investment in Southeast Asia accelerates its reorganization, if the Philippines cannot improve its infrastructure, project implementation, and business environment, it may further lose ground in the latest round of regional supply chain relocation.
In 2025, private capital markets in Australia and New Zealand remained resilient amid a global backdrop of increasingly cautious capital. Infrastructure, the energy transition, digital infrastructure, software, healthcare, and artificial intelligence became focal points for capital, indicating that the region is shifting from “broad expansion” to a capital allocation logic of “fewer, larger, later-stage” investments.
Japan’s investment trends in Cambodia are not just a bilateral FDI story, but a microcosm of the simultaneous unfolding of global manufacturing relocation, supply chain diversification, Southeast Asian regional competition, and policy upgrading.
L O Baptista has added a new financial partner. On the surface, this is a reinforcement of the firm’s talent base, but in essence it reflects the deepening links between Brazil’s capital markets, cross-border financing, and Middle Eastern capital, with the legal services system accordingly moving closer to the more internationalized demands of transactions.
China Gold International Resources announced its first-quarter 2026 results, with both revenue and net profit rising sharply in tandem. This article reviews its performance improvement, operating drivers, valuation divergence, and potential risks, helping readers understand the impact of this quarterly report on the investment narrative.