Temasek CEO says Southeast Asian firms need to boost governance

(Oct 25): Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd chief executive officer Dilhan Pillay called for Southeast Asian nations to adopt better enforcement of investor rights to attract global investments into the region.

Implementing international corporate governance may help lift the region’s private credit market, which Pillay said has lagged that of western peers. 

“If you want to get the capital into the market and you want to have the same consequence as what we have seen in the US where companies can be private for longer, governance is the most important thing,” Pillay said at the Asean Business and Investment Summit 2025 in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

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