12/12/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the manager of two New York-based hedge funds with conducting a pair of trading schemes involving Chinese bank stocks and making $16.7 million in illicit profits.
12/10/2012
Formerly a partner with Herbert Smith, she will be based in the Firm's Singapore Office.
12/10/2012
The CBRC says principal and non-principal guaranteed wealth management products issued by banks should not fall under shadow-banking. But this doesn't appear to address the risks.
12/10/2012
The Reserve Bank today released the final capital adequacy standards, which apply to locally incorporated registered banks in New Zealand and implement the Basel III capital requirements. The bulk of the new standards take effect from 1 January 2013 and
12/09/2012
The remaining banks, in accordance with CBRC requirements, must keep their CAR, TCAR and CCAR equal to or above 8.5, 6.5 and 5.5 percent respectively by the end of 2013.
12/05/2012
The investors claim in a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that BTA Bank, which isn’t named as a defendant, defrauded them by inducing them to buy debt securities as part of a 2010 restructuring.
12/05/2012
A former J.P. Morgan employee has been sentenced to 18 months jail by the NSW District Court after she gave inside information to a friend while working at the investment bank.
12/05/2012
The man who blew the whistle on American Bernie Madoff, and two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators of massive U.S. insider trading activities, are heading to New Zealand.
12/05/2012
Michaels is experienced in advising ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their related trusts, controlled companies and businesses across South East Asia. His practice will focus on tax and wealth planning.
12/05/2012
Linklaters advised the underwriters on the $1.8bn Hong Kong IPO of Ping An in 2004.
12/03/2012
The Chinese billionaire who plans a $200 million property investment in Iceland said he’s not giving up on his plan even after it was thwarted a second time.
12/02/2012
China's Huaxia Bank Co Ltd has blamed an employee at a Shanghai branch for selling a wealth management product without permission, after Chinese media said the product could not repay investors.
12/02/2012
These two cases illustrate well how important it is for successful and wealthy businessmen to have a clear and robust succession plan that lays out how their own personal wealth is to be divided, when the time arises.
12/02/2012
Established in 2010 by the Firm’s Hong Kong office in conjunction with the University of Hong Kong, the Commercial Law Prize is awarded to the LLM student who achieves the best overall performance in the school’s Master of Laws in Corporate an
11/29/2012
"These four firms and all other foreign broker-dealers must educate themselves on the U.S. laws and regulations when they provide services to U.S. investors."
11/29/2012
International legal practice adds Beijing partner
He was previously a partner in the banking group of King & Wood Mallesons' Beijing office.
11/28/2012
China central bank official slams U.S. tax dodging law
A new U.S. anti-tax-evasion measure imposes unfair costs on foreign banks and clashes with Chinese law
11/27/2012
The delay drew sharp criticism from Hong Kong Monetary Authority deputy chief executive Arthur Yuen Kwok-hang
11/27/2012
The court also banned him from sitting on the board of any Hong Kong company for three years.
11/27/2012
Proposed new regulations for sponsors of IPOs in Hong Kong will give bankers greater authority