APAC Signal
A daily briefing on Asia, for people who operate in it
APAC Signal · by Alex Szabo
A new edition every weekday: one clear read on the commercial, strategic, and technology developments moving Asia.
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What it is
APAC Signal is a daily editorial brief on Asia-Pacific markets, technology, and capital, published on Substack at apacsignal.substack.com and on LinkedIn. Lead stories get a paragraph of editorial interpretation; the rest run as headlines and short dot points, structured for a fast morning read. It is written for senior operators who track APAC as a core part of their work, with over 1,000 subscribers across both channels and growing.
What each edition covers
Every edition sorts the day into five standing clusters, so you can scan straight to the one that moves your work:
- AI & Tech: AI models and labs, agentic systems, chips, enterprise platforms, and compute infrastructure.
- SEA & APAC: regional capital flows, industrial policy, and deal activity.
- Commercial Strategy & PE: operating moves, value creation, transformation programmes, and portfolio plays.
- Investing & Wealth: allocators, private credit, family offices, and sovereign capital.
- Health & Longevity: pharma, biotech, and the economics of an aging Asia.
Who it's for
Leaders across private equity, conglomerate strategy, corporate innovation, and enterprise business development, concentrated in the Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo triangle: PE professionals, strategy leads at established tech businesses, and executives running regional mandates. Each edition is concise, sourced, and written from an operator's perspective.
Recent editions
- Taiwan rejected a 1.79% power increase. Singapore delivered 17% ⚡ · 30 Jul 2026
- Foreign investors sold US$3.4bn of Korean stock on Tuesday, and the chip news came second 📊 · 29 Jul 2026
- The AI hardware cycle showed up in Asia's trade data and in Nvidia's credit spread 📊 · 28 Jul 2026
- Apple's preferred memory supplier listed in Shanghai this morning, and Washington still hasn't decided 📊 · 27 Jul 2026
The kind of number it catches
Every edition turns the day's most consequential figures into charts you can read in five seconds. Three from recent editions:
