Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Financial services firms continue to outsource mid-to-back-office operations to remain competitive

With or without AI, outsourcing can provide significant benefits.

Japan’s wealth managers face a problem for the ages

In Japanese wealth management, customers are mostly retired people who have received pensions

Trident Trust Singapore: Expanding its Three Core Businesses Across Asia

Trident is also aiming to boost its corporate services activities and is working with a number of global partners who are looking to benefit from Singapore’s business friendly environment.

How Can Brexit Affect Vietnam? Let Us Count the Ways

Britain has been looking for new trade agreements to join if it is no longer in the EU bloc, and that includes joining a major agreement already signed by Vietnam.

'Easing US-China trade deal and subdued demand may put pressure on Gold'

Moderate global demand is the other reason to hit gold prices down. The latest data show that demand from China and India, the largest consumers of gold, sharply declined in recent months.

Big business still has faith in Hong Kong

Despite the anti-government protests, Sun Hung Kai Properties has paid a record HK$42.23 billion for a plot of land and tech giant Alibaba, with a market capitalisation of HK$4 trillion, has listed on the local stock exchange

Morgan Stanley boosts price targets for Alibaba, Baidu and e-commerce upstarts as bank says China internet sector ‘attractive’

The 26 companies under Morgan Stanley’s sector coverage, including leading players Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent Holdings, are seen generating 24 per cent more profits to 376 billion yuan on the back of 24 per cent jump in sales to 2.6 trillion yuan.

Drifting to the Left

The new SPD leadership are only pressing for changes that might be more broadly welcomed across Europe.

Growing wealth through long-term, passive investments

Digital wealth manager CEO Dhruv Arora does not believe in actively trading to time the market

NAB's new CEO Ross McEwan urged to get on top of bank's AUSTRAC risks

Institutional investors believe Mr McEwan must examine the risks the bank faces from AUSTRAC, given it has been telling the market since late 2017 that it has been dealing with compliance "issues" in this area.

Istanbul Finance Center to be role model: CEO of Malaysia's Labuan International Business and Financial Center

Upcoming project to be successful as it sits in middle of Asia, Europe and Middle East, says Farah Jaafar-Crossby

Asia leads global luxury growth: study

Chinese shoppers accounted for 90% of the constant growth of the market in 2019, and now account for 35% of the value of luxury goods sold

RBNZ to Adopt More Intensive Supervisory Approach to Banking

The report also said the RBNZ intends to review its stress-testing framework over the coming year

Why is China’s Yachting Industry Lagging?

With the largest number of millionaires in the world, China’s rich are actively seeking the best in luxury goods, which revolved primarily around the automotive industry and the fashion/designer labels industry for many years.

DBS awards over SNG1 million in grants to Social Enterprises across Asia

The grants have come as part of the DBS Foundation’s ‘2019

OECD releases peer review reports on dispute resolution

The reports of Brazil; Bulgaria; China (People's Republic of); Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia published contain around 190 targeted recommendations that will be followed up in stage 2 of the peer review process.

Frontier Markets and The Continuing Expansion of the MENA Proposition

“Frontier markets tend to be driven much more by what's going on domestically than by what's going on in global markets”

Philippine banks see stronger growth in next 2 years

The BSOS said that because of the bullish economic outlook, 45.9 percent of banks surveyed expect stronger banks in the next two years

ANZ bank reveals it is reviewing its money-laundering systems amid Westpac scandal

ANZ’s announcement came as political pressure on Westpac continued, with Labor’s finance spokesman, Andrew Leigh, calling for the bank’s executives to be recalled immediately to face grilling at a parliamentary committee.

China’s bank funding under pressure as financial confidence drops

Troubled lenders able to raise only a fraction of funds they have sought

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