From unbankable to investable: How risk is being repriced across Asia

Cnbc · May 24, 2026 · 74 words · By Lisa Kim

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watch now From unbankable to investable: How risk is being repriced across Asia At the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, leaders from finance and investment examine how development finance is changing.

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As governments, nonprofits and private investors take on new roles, the debate is shifting to how risk in frontier and emerging markets can be reassessed — and what it will take to unlock capital at scale.

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Claim 1: “At the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, leaders from finance and investment examine how development finance is changing.”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held its 59th Annual Meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in May 2026. The sources explicitly state that the meeting brought together delegates to discuss investment mobilization, climate financing, and economic resilience, which aligns with the claim that leaders examined how development finance is changing.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 European Union–Central Asia summit was a summit held on 3–4 April 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It was the first summit meeting between the European Union and the Central Asian nations of Ka…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_European_Union–Central_As…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and most of Kazakhstan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that incl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand

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