Top executives are increasingly prone to emotional outbursts: acute crises, market volatility, and a rapid-fire flow of information increase their stress level immensely, Brigitte Kaps writes for finews.first.
UBS’s wealth management arm undergoes a major restructuring exercise led by the business’ global co-head Iqbal Khan and Tom Naratil.
The former president of Bank of China provided insight into the potential mechanisms that the upcoming national digital currency could adopt while urging accelerated growth in the space.
Financial uncertainty, low-interest rates, and slowing global economic growth are expected to provide a supportive environment for gold investment in 2020.
According to the sources, Europe is one of the key regions for its investments, where it will target companies in the consumer, health care and manufacturing sectors.
As billionaires, bankers and politicians descend on Davos for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, the WEF community is now viewing environmental risks as more pressing than others such as economic and geopolitical risks.
Goldman Sachs is in discussion with its domestic Chinese partners to launch a majority-owned asset management units onshore.
Global green bonds set another record in 2019 led by China for the fourth consecutive year, demonstrating an insatiable appetite for sustainability-linked financing.
Sun Life launches its new head office in Hong Kong which designed with the intention to enable internal collaboration through an open workplace.
Based in Shanghai, the China holding company will support the German insurer's growth ambitions in the country as it aims to play a larger role in China’s insurance sector and grow with the market.
The global economy narrowly avoided a recession in 2019 and is showing signs of stabilizing, but prospects for the coming year are muted.
Digital banking is set to have a transformative year in Asia, as the wider financial services industry prepares itself for rapid shifts in regulation and new entrants. Banks will be forced to make tough choices on their business models, says Finastra.
The People’s Bank of China added 300 billion of liquidity yesterday to help offset an expected squeeze on cash ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.
Hired from rival Chubb Life, he brings 15 years' experience in the insurance industry to the firm.
Global financial companies, including UBS and Goldman Sachs, are gradually joining the efforts to support relief of the devastating wildfires which have ravaged Australia since November last year.
Asia tops the rank as the most expensive region for living and houses the three most costly cities: Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.
The Shanghai government announced a series of policies to motivate firms and talent while formally challenging the similar ambitions of nearby Hangzhou.
Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange has successfully closed the bond targeted at improving women’s livelihood in Asia – the second such debt issuance of its kind.
In a move to narrow wage gaps between male and female staff, Citi Singapore has adjusted the pay of women at its bank. Its female staff did not receive equal compensation when compared with their male peers of equal work performance.
She takes over from Tuan Huynh, who was appointed Deutsche Bank’s Chief Investment Officer, Europe, several months ago.
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