This research draws on the verbatim transcript of the complete recording of the Asian Financial Forum opening session held on 26th January 2026 as primary qualitative material. Using close textual interpretation in combination with word frequency and word cloud statistics, sentiment polarity detection, and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) with KMeans clustering, the study distills the meeting’s shared understandings, institutional orientations, and strategic signals relevant to firms. The findings indicate that participants framed global uncertainty as a structural and enduring condition and emphasised stabilising long-term expectations through institutional coordination and multilateral cooperation. They highlighted the reduction of fragmentation costs via rule alignment, risk sharing, and enhanced connectivity of cross border financial infrastructure. Hong Kong was positioned as an institutional connector, playing a pivotal interfacing role in the offshore renminbi system, cross market connectivity schemes, and the coordinated development of clearing, settlement, and warehousing networks linked to gold and other commodities. Multilateral development finance was redefined as a builder of confidence and order, providing a stabilising anchor through instrument innovation and co financing when private capital becomes more cautious, while supporting infrastructure investment and the green transition. Sentiment results and negative term patterns suggest that key operational constraints are concentrated in frictions related to clearing, repurchase agreements, taxation, and process costs. The clustering structure further reveals a layered discursive chain spanning policy impetus, cross border institutional linkages, and the operational mechanics of financial markets. On this basis, firms should strengthen governance transparency, verifiable compliance, and quantifiable risk management capabilities, and optimise cross border financing and collaboration through institutionalised channels to enhance resilience and sustainable growth under uncertainty.
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Gan, W., Xiao, M., Hashim, F. B., Zhang, J., Mohammed, T. A. (2025) An In-depth Analytical Review of the Opening Session of the Asian Financial Forum and Its Implications for Corporate Development: Based on the Conference Theme of Building a New Order of Financial Cooperation under a Highly Uncertain Global Landscape. Hong Kong Financial Bulletin, 1(5), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.71052/hkfb2025/KBIY2015