04/08/2014
Asia Pacific associates see partnership promo prospects rise
Recent Asia partner promotions statistics from eight international firms over the past four years suggests local senior lawyers stand a good chance of being made up.
04/07/2014
Hong Kong’s securities regulator is investigating how asset managers pay for investment research in the first sign the UK’s proposed shake-up of the industry is widening internationally.
04/07/2014
Sustainability advocacy group Ceres, in collaboration with BlackRock and other major institutional investors across the globe, announced an initiative to engage global stock exchanges, via the World Federation of Exchanges, on a uniform standard for susta
04/07/2014
The Financial Services Authority has released its 2014 Indonesian Banking Booklet as a way of providing an easy-to-read information source on the country’s related banking policies and regulations.
04/06/2014
Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. said it has been actively preparing for new banking regulations while implementing strategies to increase volume and market share through improved products and services.
04/06/2014
Sentencing Corrupt Bankers to Death by Firing Squad
But these death sentences nevertheless are high profile scandals in Vietnam.
04/04/2014
The scandal led to a series of proposed reforms to the city-state's stock trading rules.
04/04/2014
Vietnam issued trading licenses to 65 foreign institutional investors in the first quarter, up from 53 issued in the same period last year.
04/02/2014
Several banks and brokers have already been fined billions of dollars for manipulating benchmark interest rates
04/02/2014
The Financial Services Agency issued business improvement orders to Mizuho Bank in September 2013 and December 2013 after the bank failed to take appropriate steps to address the loan problem and made false reports to the agency.
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.