One of Asia's fastest-growing private banks has poached an UHNW banker from Credit Suisse to be its head of global investors and family offices.
DBS group chief executive Piyush Gupta said it would avoid acquisition targets with large deal sizes in order to maintain concentrated focus on its digital transformation.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in collaboration with J.P. Morgan and Temasek, has developed a blockchain-based prototype that enables payments to be carried out in different currencies on the same network.
Japans’ SBI Holdings continues to bet on local lenders operating outside of major cities with its latest partnership with a Fukushima-based player.
UOB leverages artificial intelligence to launch what it claims to be an industry-first financial planning solution.
The decision to withdraw the planned IPO of WeWork poses an interesting question of whether technology companies are becoming over-hyped once more. In his essay on finews.first, Mark Hawtin looks at the recent spate of disappointing IPOs in the technology space and...
The Singapore Fintech Festival 2019 and the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology will come together. Running from 11 to 15 November, this event will gather the global innovation and business community in Singapore.
Sustainability appears set to lead discussions at Singapore’s Fintech Festival this year, as attendees both confront the necessity of addressing climate change and look for ways to cash in on going green.
The purchase was made for an undisclosed sum from Chinese state-owned enterprise Beijing Capital Land.
The target for the private equity firm's new fund eclipses its previous $9.3 billion Asia Fund III in 2017.
Listed firms controlled by billionaires outperformed the broader market with such entities in Asia leading the pack in relative gains.
Julius Baer nets a former Goldman Sachs private banker to lead its Southeast Asia business.
Validus sees an opportunity to plug a $21 billion SME financing gap in Vietnam and help accelerate financial inclusion among the unbanked and underserved SMEs in the country.
High transaction fees and long settlement times are already a thing of the past. Firms need to change the customer experience and way they do things or be left behind, he said.
Vanguard furthers its China ambitions with the appointment of a managing director for its domestic market.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and OCBC Group are believed to be readying their offers to compete for the acquisition of Indonesian lender PT Bank Permata.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore released an independent research paper detailing how dark trading could boost the appeal of Singaporean markets by improving market liquidity, especially for small and mid cap stocks.
Swiss Re is interested in investing in China. The target of its interest is said to be equally keen on buying a stake in the Zurich-based reinsurance giant.
Invested Asset Management hires a wealth management veteran to bolster its coverage of private banking distribution in Asia.
Banks in South-east Asia could miss out on as much as $5 billion, or 14.3 percent of their payments revenue by 2025, displaced by the growth of digital payments and competition from non-banks, according to a new report.
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