12/28/2021
Banking sector set to witness significant reforms in the new year
Privatisation of public sector banks and strategic disinvestment of IDBI Bank on the agenda of the government for 2022
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12/28/2021
Vietnam 2022 monetary policies to support recovery, contain prices-central bank
The central bank also said total lending in Vietnam as of Dec 22 rose 12.68per cent from the end of 2020
12/28/2021
Hong Kong residents lose HK$726 million in 2021 to phone scammers pretending to be mainland Chinese officials
Locals targeted by tricksters claiming ‘discrepancies’ in personal information for Covid-19 vaccine
12/28/2021
About 72% of CEOs worried about losing their jobs in 2022
Supply chain, labour market and digitalisation topped executives’ list of concerns, survey shows
12/28/2021
Manufacturing To Drive Next Leg Of Growth
This pandemic has made India emerge as one of the hubs for manufacturing and global outsourcing.
12/27/2021
Barclays to expand private banking in Singapore from its base in India
Setting up a local branch is part of the plan to grow its Australian client by offering its services to more corporate and institutional clients.
12/27/2021
2022 Global Equity Outlook: Disruption sharpens the focus on Future Quality
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12/27/2021
If there are opportunities, open for further acquisitions: Ravi Menon, CEO, HSBC Asset Management
The key pillar of our global strategy is to grow the wealth management business in Asia.
12/27/2021
Pakistanis own $20bn in cryptocurrencies, more than federal reserves: Report
“Pakistan recorded around $20 billion of cryptocurrency value in 2020-21, showing an abnormal increase of 711 percent,” the Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
12/27/2021
Global financial markets brace for a bumpy ride in 2022
Soaring inflation, rising interest rates and further supply chain disruption will fuel volatility, economists say
12/27/2021
Edmond de Rothschild CEO to Mainly Focus on Offshore Asia Market
That’s a legitimate question, and one that the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) also asked me.
12/27/2021
In China, Bragging About Your Wealth Can Get You Censored
Online posts by users showing off their receipts, over-ordering food or scattering money have been deemed vulgar. Regulators say such content leads young people astray.
12/26/2021
More women promoted, but hurdles remain in S. Korea's finance
The nation’s No.2 banking group by total assets, Shinhan Financial Group recently carried out a leadership reshuffle that put women in charge of its digitalization.
12/24/2021
Sumitomo Mitsui CEO Jun Ohta still looking for more acquisition targets
Ohta’s also interested in American retail banking, and said he may consider entering online lending in the U.S. as a way to secure a position in that market.
12/23/2021
The family business: Planning ahead to pass down the family wealth
At the heart of the wealth creation in the region are the family businesses in Southeast Asia.
12/23/2021
Exclusive interview between CREALOGIX and Guy Callaghan, CEO of Banjo Loans, on the SME Banking landscape
Larger banking legacy systems aren’t always capable of extracting data from the right range of different sources to understand the financial position of a company.
12/23/2021
Nikko AM: On the Ground in Asia-Monthly Insights
We are slightly cautious on rates markets and expect Indonesian bonds to outperform.
12/23/2021
Digital Transformation – Are Asia’s Private Banks and Wealth Management Firms on Track to Realise their Hopes and Visions?
The panel also looked into the obvious pitfalls and tricky nuances of implementing and executing these decisions so that these often very significant technology investments are not wasted by not taking the right approach to digitalisation.
12/21/2021
Singapore’s GIC sees opportunities in China real estate sector, report says
“We have been actually invested for a long time already…Structurally, it definitely has a place in our portfolio… Probably a bigger place down the road,”
12/21/2021
Central Banks In Action Mode
The Bank of England raised interest rates last week in an abrupt U-turn. At the previous meeting, the BoE’s monetary policy committee had voted 7-2 in favour of no action.