07/09/2012
That assurance was given by Laura Cha Shih May-lung, formerly with the China Securities Regulatory Commission, who was appointed by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to chair the preparatory work on the council.
07/09/2012
Baker & McKenzie did 30 deals worth $13.6bn, and the firm slipped marginally from first to second place on the tables in the past year.
07/09/2012
Former Herbert Smith alliance partner Stibbe is set to launch an office in Hong Kong with the aim of assisting Chinese clients with European investments.
07/09/2012
International law firm promotes lawyers in Bermuda and Hong Kong
Corporate and Private Client teams have been promoted to Director.
07/08/2012
Home Affairs and Justice Minister Jason Clare said while the five-year, $113 million figure was alarming, the real toll was likely to be much higher as many victims were often too embarrassed to go to authorities.
07/08/2012
As per the new rules, exchanges can also get listed, although not on their own platform.
07/08/2012
It said the decision formed part of an agreement to enhance banking services cooperation with Beijing under the existing China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
07/08/2012
Media’s ‘bad apple’ theory no longer works
07/04/2012
Financial services minister Tadahiro Matsushita on Wednesday instructed an advisory panel of scholars and experts to review current regulations and propose new rules, including penalising those who pass on insider information.
07/03/2012
Nomura last week said it will cut top executives’ pay and suspend some operations amid a government crackdown on insider trading.
07/03/2012
The banks, which are classified under the government’s Qualifying Full Banks Programme, will be evaluated based on their market share of domestic deposits.
07/02/2012
Linkaters’ Australian alliance firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) has been hit by a team defection to Clyde & Co which is set to launch in the region in October.
07/02/2012
The fifth partner is Jason Carmichael, who focuses on corporate and M&A. He joins from local Hong Kong firm CdB and JC& Co, which he co-founded in 2009 after he left Clyde & Co’s Hong Kong office.
07/02/2012
The announcement confirmed the terms of the report late on Thursday. In the year to end-March, 59-year-old Watanabe was paid 128 million yen ($1.6 million), including options.
07/01/2012
The chief executive of CIMB Group also said that following this year’s deals for parts of RBS's investment bank in Asia and a commercial bank in the Philippines, he has finished the acquisition spree that increased staff 40 times and grew the b
06/28/2012
Forty-four per cent of the promotions were made in the firm’s Asia Pacific practices, where 28 partners were elected, with 20 across its Europe, Middle East and Africa offices, nine in North America and six in Latin America.
06/28/2012
HDFC Standard Life fined for paying unauthorized commissions
Besides the fine for rejecting claims, the regulator has also penalized the company for paying unauthorized commissions to group companies, including HDFC, HDFC Bank and HDB.
06/28/2012
HSBC Holdings Plc and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., among foreign lenders allowed to take retail deposits in Singapore
06/28/2012
THE engine of growth for legal employment has shifted decisively away from top-tier law firms, as the middle tier grabs senior lawyers and clients.
06/27/2012
Nomura has employed a group of outside lawyers to conduct its review, which it plans to complete by the end of the month.