04/01/2014
Sri Lanka's central bank said it had approved in principle mergers among a few banks and non-bank lenders, in a regulator driven bid to build a financial sector made up of fewer, larger firms.
04/01/2014
International law firm promotes 4 to partnership in Asia
The offshore law firm has promoted 12 of its lawyers to the firm’s partnership globally
03/31/2014
Owner of New York's Plaza Hotel and London's Grosvenor House hote asks staff to chip in $1,600 each to pay bail for boss
Indian firm Sahara has asked each of its employee to pay 100,000 rupees to fund the $1.7 billion bail to get the boss out of jail
03/31/2014
China seizes $14.5 billion assets from former leader
Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at the centre of China's biggest corruption scandal in more than six decades
03/31/2014
Stephenson Harwood enters Formal Law Alliance with Singapore's Virtus Law
The firm also launched in Beijing around the same time, marking its fourth office in Greater China.
03/31/2014
Court jails Chinese fund manager for insider trading
A court in China has sentenced a former fund manager of Bosera Asset Management Co to a three-year imprisonment for insider trading.
03/31/2014
Commonwealth Bank wants the same laws governing banks to be extended to so-called "shadow banks" and to new finance technology companies, suggesting the status quo is exposing traditional banks to additional risks.
03/31/2014
Hong Kong's antigraft agency visited the offices of a former J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. executive who left the firm amid a continuing probe of the U.S. bank's Asian hiring practices
03/28/2014
The programme had 14 listed bonds currently outstanding worth
03/28/2014
The Philippine central bank left its policy rate steady on Thursday, as expected, after it lowered its inflation outlook but analysts say tightening is on the cards as growth stays resilient and with possible upside risks to prices.
03/28/2014
China will further improve management and tax policies for the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor programme to attract more foreign investment into the country's capital markets, the securities regulator said on Friday.
03/27/2014
Hong Kong lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday that will allow the AAA-rated government to raise around $500 million via Sukuk, or Islamic bonds.
03/27/2014
UBS AG suspended foreign-exchange traders in the U.S., Singapore and Switzerland as its investigation into the alleged rigging of currency markets widened.
03/27/2014
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has asked banks to tighten their approval processes on syndicated loans for Chinese companies raising offshore loans in Hong Kong
03/26/2014
What Happens Before and After an IPO in Hong Kong - Maples & Calder
This article first appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of the IFC Economic Report published by IFC Review.
03/26/2014
Latham receives High-Yield Deal and Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year awards from International Financial Law Review.
03/26/2014
I am looking forward to returning to the Middle East to continue to develop Norton Rose Fulbright’s conventional
03/26/2014
Australian firm Clayton Utz and its Hong Kong association firm Haley & Co have broken off their relationship, with the former retrenching to focus on its domestic market.
03/26/2014
UBS AG suspended foreign-exchange traders in the U.S., Singapore and Switzerland as its investigation into the alleged rigging of currency markets widened.
03/24/2014
Account problems cloud Hong Kong hub hopes
Controversially, banks including HSBC and Standard Chartered are rejecting companies and trusts registered in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, say senior executives at Hong Kong corporate services companies