02/27/2023

What next for Credit Suisse in Singapore?

Sitohang had strong relationships with high net worth individuals across the region and particularly in his native Indonesia, where he built a formidable business.

02/23/2023

Hong Kong Touts Wealth Management As «Essential»

Hong Kong fancies itself, rightly or wrongly, as a stock and bond trading hub swaddled by reams of the region’s best prospectus-coddling investment bankers, or i-bankers, as they are called in local parlance.

02/21/2023

The New China Syndrome

Jack Godell: “What makes you think they're looking for a scapegoat ?” Ted Spindler: “Tradition.” - From ‘The China Syndrome’ (1979, dir. James Bridges).

02/20/2023

Singapore Highlights Credit Suisse's Talent Exodus

Hardly a week goes by without Credit Suisse having to announce high-ranking departures, with the brain drain making it all the more difficult for the bank's management to achieve a turnaround.

02/20/2023

Hong Kong Keeps Shrinking

Despite that, an increasing number of countries are victims of the same ills afflicting many industrialized European countries.

02/14/2023

The Markets' Head Has Turned

For some months, the bond market preferred to price the Fed funds rate peaking somewhere near 5% and the Fed then cutting the rates through much of the second half of the year.

02/10/2023

Hong Kong Billionaire Hosted Mega Handbag Sale

At over HK$1.5 million, the most expensive sale was a 2006 Bleu Jean Shiny Porosus Crocodile Birkin 25, which features 18-karat white gold and diamond, according to results posted online.