CONTENTS — JUNE 2018 VOLUME 14 NUMBER 5
11 | FACT & COMMENT // STEVE FORBES
Cry for Argentina: The IMF is coming.THE GLOBAL 2000
38 | THE WORLD’S LARGEST PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES
The Asia-Pacific region leads with 792 names, 40% of the list.
BY ANDREA MURPHY
40 | TOMORROWLAND
If smart cities are the future, Singapore’s Keppel is contributing plenty of IQ.
BY JANE A. PETERSON
44 | INSURANCE AS ENTRÉE TO TECH
Jessica Tan has overseen Chinese giant Ping An’s sweeping rise in big data.
BY SHU-CHING JEAN CHEN
50 | THE RETOOLING OF STANLEY BLACK & DECKER
Turning a 175-year-old manufacturer into a company as innovative as any in Silicon Valley.
BY AMY FELDMAN
54 | TECH’S ULTIMATE SECOND ACT
Billionaire Fred Luddy has made ServiceNow the most innovative company in the U.S.
BY KATHLEEN CHAYKOWSKI AND MARK COATNEYCOMPANIES, PEOPLE
14 | BYTEDANCE TO THE MUSIC
The super-unicorn’s Douyin video site is cutting in on WeChat’s hold on Chinese youth.
BY YUE WANG
16 | INDIAN BANKER IN SHANGHAI
Heading a Brics lender, K.V. Kamath sees ties growing between its biggest backers.
BY RUSSELL FLANNERYUNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ALL TOTALS AND PRICES EXPRESSED IN OUR STORIES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS.S PAGE 44“WE ARE NOT
AFRAID TO TAKE
CALCULATED BETS.”
—Jessica Tan, tech czar
at Ping An Insurance,
No. 10 on our Global 2000 List.2 | FORBES ASIA JUNE 2018
COVER PHOTOGRAPH
BY JAE-HYUN KIM FOR FORBES