Credit Suisse is shaking up its top management following a three-year restructuring under CEO Tidjane Thiam. A top executive is heading for Asia.
HSBC has changed its branch footpring across Singapore as part of its wider goal to increase its market share in retail banking.
Wealth managers banking on China are ready for a systemic rethink of how much money they are pumping into the promising market, finews.asia's editor-at-large Shruti Advani says in finews.com-TV.
Coinbase announced that it will allow its users to trade XRP, a cryptocurrency created by Ripple. The move underscores confidence in XRP's regulatory status.
Gojek has inked a partnership with Gigacover, a Singapore-based insurance technology company focused on the protection needs of freelancers, to launch a scheme that covers all its driver-partners.
Chinese companies accounted for almost half of all fintech investments globally last year, according to a report by consulting firm Accenture.
Singapore's banks showed record figures for 2018 last week. But all three firms face challenges. What's next?
Julius Baer's Russian business was hit by scandal last year. The private bank now plans a hiring offensive to get the business back on track.
A French judge hit UBS with a $5 billion fine in a ruling that doesn't lean on any witness testimony. But there is Swiss bank data on French clients – and a Swiss court holds the key to it.
Wave Money, a provider of mobile financial services in Myanmar, operates the largest financial services network in the country, with an agent network that is over 16 times larger than that of traditional bank branches.
An industry veteran responsible for the institutional banking business at Singapore-based DBS bank is nominated for election to the UBS Board of Directors.
OCBC's payout ratio were below its peers, analysts noted. The bank defended its position, citing rougher markets ahead.
In March a new CEO will take over at PineBridge for Asia Pacific ex-Japan. He will be responsible for developing the company’s growth and strategy in the region across both institutional and intermediary channels.
Urs Palmieri, a banking specialist working for EY, wants to export the Asian tech knowhow to Switzerland. He detects a certain lack of innovation and courage to take calculated risks in the country.
Singapore came in third place under EY's Open Banking Opportunity Index, which was recently launched in Asia Pacific. The index assess the potential for successful open banking adoption.
A senior private banker with over two decades experience in wealth management and focused on the non-resident Indians has resigned from Julius Baer.
UBS was blindsided by a French criminal ruling against the bank carrying a $5 billion fine. How worried should the bank's investors be about losing juicy payouts after the setback?
Many top managers boast about how little sleep they need. However, they are all wrong, Claudia Kraaz writes in her essay on finews.first.
Additiv is naming a new head in Asia to spur growth in the region. The fintech's new hire is a veteran of Credit Suisse.
A foreign-exchange trader who Barclays refused to re-hire despite a court ruling forcing it to do so gets the last laugh.
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