Your definitive guide to the highs and lows of 2019: finews.asia features a year-end wrap for four banks with their highlights of 2019. Here is a look at why Bank of Singapore made headlines this year.
HSBC Private Bank appointed four senior executives to strengthen the key areas of family advisory services and philanthropy within the Private Wealth Solutions business in Asia Pacific.
Although Singapore is located far from the skyscrapers of New York and high towers of London, it has managed to produce hedge funds beating global rivals.
United Overseas Bank (UOB), DBS Bank and Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) have teamed up to extend an S$945 million green loan to Allianz Real Estate and Hong Kong private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners.
Ant Financial and Vanguard establish a joint venture to provide advisory services to China's onshore retail market.
Bangkok Bank emerges as the buyer of PT Bank Permata after Singapore's DBS and OCBC reportedly backed out from bidding.
Credit Suisse won’t reach the profitability target it set itself for 2019. The bank will resort to well-established measures to keep shareholders happy.
Large caps are the dominant component in funds with an ESG label and individual investors also tend to buy such assets. Taken together, this can lead to a dangerous bubble, says Carole Millet in an essay for finews.first.
Investors in China’s Tewoo Group are recently forced to take losses on a U.S. dollar bond. The largest failure to repay dollar debt by a state-owned company in two decades is prompting fears of a domino effect.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has revoked the Capital Markets Services Licence of CT Bright Investment.
The rating agency this week said the city’s economy is likely to have contracted by 1.5 percent in 2019, lower than its earlier estimate of zero growth.
Your definitive guide to the highs and lows of 2019: finews.asia features a year-end wrap for four banks with their highlights of 2019. Here is a look at why Credit Suisse made headlines this year.
In another setback for Softbank’s giant Vision Fund, OneConnect has slashed its expected valuation by about half before a planned stock market debut in the U.S.
Razer is still weighing the decision on whether to apply for a digital banking license in Singapore due to the complexities involving a consortium and a tight deadline.
Asian economies can again expect to see the highest salary increases globally. Although the headline figures paint a good story, a patchwork of regional economies sits behind them, so wage growth is not even.
The philanthropic foundation of UBS will soon reach an important milestone, according to information obtained by finews.asia. It may not be the biggest such organization, but the volume of investments is growing steadily.
A lawyer who worked for Credit Suisse claims the bank also had her followed. The episode involves Credit Suisse's partnership with Silicon Valley firm Palantir.
The arrival of a new CEO for GAM three months ago was meant to mark a return to normal for the battered asset manager. Instead, CEO Peter Sanderson already faces investor pressure just after taking the helm.
Indonesia, forecast to grow at 5 percent in 2020, offers growth potential for Bangkok Bank, which is looking for a new market in the region.
Beijing has directed state-owned banks and enterprises to help set up infrastructure in Macau to aid financial diversification, and to serve as a contingency plan if the situation in Hong Kong worsens.
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