From January 2017 investment manager Fidelity International will have a new Head of Intermediary, South East Asia, and Singapore Country Head.
Switzerland’s two largest banks have to slash their spending. Signs are mounting that both will lower the cost boom again before year-end. Employees are expected to face the brunt of measures.
J. Safra Sarasin in Singapore has appointed a new Managing Director to lead a team covering the Indonesia and Southeast Asia markets.
A few days after offshore law firm Carey Olsen expanded its corporate practice in Asia, with a second partner joining the Singapore team, the firm has now opened for business in Hong Kong.
MetLife, one of the top five global insurance companies, has named a new Hong Kong Chief Executive. The region is a hotly contested and valuable insurance market.
Former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei became arrogant and dismissive of his former peers after he left the Swiss bank, a court heard on Monday.
New York based Byte Academy, a leader in industry-oriented technology education, is about to launch its first international campus and ASEAN headquarters in Singapore. it also plans to open in India at the end of 2016.
Lombard Odier became the latest Swiss private bank to poach an executive from the luxury goods industry, hiring a former Chanel executive. The move underscores efforts to more effectively woo wealthy clients.
Hong Kong’s 12-week fintech accelerator programme sponsored by Standard Chartered and Fidelity International «SuperCharger FinTech 2.0» has chosen its finalists.
Credit Suisse has lured a prominent insurance specialist and veteran UBS banker in Singapore, finews.asia has learned. It is the latest in a series of defections from Switzerland's largest bank to its smaller rival.
British headquartered but Asia centric banking giant HSBC said its third quarter adjusted pretax profit rose seven per cent from a year ago to $5.59 billion, beating analysts expectations.
BNY Mellon is the latest global institution to announce an Innovation Center for the city-state. The newest edition to the Singapore fintech stable will open this month.
Many Asian institutions are looking beyond core asset classes for yield and are exploring more non-traditional strategies as they struggle to meet their targeted portfolio returns.
ANZ has appointed a Group Executive Technology who will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Shayne Elliott. As part of the change current Chief Information Officer Scott Collary will leave the bank.
ShawKwei & Partners the Asian private equity fund manager, has appointed a new Managing Director in the firm’s Hong Kong office and a Senior Advisor based in the U.S.
After ten years in the Westpac boardroom a prominent businesswoman will retire from Westpac.
New York's state bank regulator has heavily fined and censured the Agricultural Bank of China for violating anti-money laundering laws and obscuring suspicious transactions. What are the details?
In 2016 markets panicked repeatedly – but it was false alarm on every count. The nervousness is no coincidence though, Albert Steck writes in an essay for finews.first.
Investors showed no mercy with Credit Suisse yesterday – the quarterly results were met with a substantial drop in the valuation of its shares. The question is what this means for the initial public offering of its Swiss unit.
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has expanded its corporate practice in Asia, with a second partner joining the Singapore team after relocating from the firm’s Cayman office.
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