Signal B2B leads cross-border deal count while B2C leads value on the strength of one transaction

Summary

Cross-border deals in the six Southeast Asian growth markets rank differently by sector depending on whether deals or dollars are counted. By number of transactions, business products and services and consumer products and services lead, followed by information technology and financial services. By value, consumer products and services comes first, largely because of the outsized Tesco acquisition in Malaysia. Financial services is second by value, and business products and services only third despite leading on deal count. The report attributes the divergence to differences in typical deal size across sectors.