Vontobel, together with a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, is the first to launch a financial product that enables investors to participate in the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The bank's consumer banking products can now be applied for, approved and used instantly.
DBS has partnered with a local edutech to enhance ts app-based management system with real-time payment features.
Strategic hires follow the digital payments firm's $40-million series B funding round in February.
Slightly over 100 challenger banks or fintechs that are becoming banks have been launched globally. However, it is not easy to convince customers to switch entirely from their main banks.
The private bank of Crédit Agricole Group will welcome its new chief executive officer for Asia on 1 July.
Citi has appointed a new CEO for the growing market in Australia. He already once worked with the U.S. bank.
A common platform as a standard source for product classification could potentially maintain the status quo for banks and wealth managers in Hong Kong while satisfying the regulator’s zeal to improve investor protection.
Digital expertise – essential for the banker of tomorrow – is not the core quality of a private banker.
Disarray and distrust in the incumbents lure international wealth managers to Australia. Being Swiss commands a definite premium.
For UBS, a guilty verdict and $5 billion fine in France was bitter and shocking. The Swiss bank is taking a more proactive tack as it prepares its appeal, finews.asia has learned.
Amid rising global trade tensions and concerns over a synchronized global slowdown, UOB wants to focus on three areas for growth.
The emergence of direct access desks, or DACs, at private banks is taking away treasury business from old school corporate banking-styled relationship managers – for the better of the industry.
A Singapore fintech turns brick-and-mortar shops into alternative ATMs, potentially saving banks millions of dollars in maintaining their cash logistics.
Emerging market bonds are seen as risky by investors as they are concerned about losing their investment. Wouter Van Overfelt, senior portfolio manager at Vontobel, tells finews-TV why he still thinks they are a good bet.
Is your LinkedIn picture helping or hurting your job chances? finews.asia's tips on how to avoid being dismissed as a trashy Kardashian or a shlub before you even get to an interview.
ICBC Standard Bank appointed a new Head of Commodities Structuring, Asia. He will be based in the bank’s Singapore office.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Asia-Pacific Future Financial Research Institute signed an agreement to promote fintech innovation.
DBS' Chief Information Officer and Head Of Group Technology and Operations, is leaving the bank.
Hong Kong’s complex product regime is expected to shrink «reverse inquiry» business and move market share to big banks.
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