Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Trade tension and rising rates hit Asian investment banking fees

IPO markets offer glimmer of hope as deals start to flow

Bank of Japan to consider cutting inflation forecasts

Slower price growth in April raised alarms

StanChart Is Said to Plot Asia Hubs in Singapore, Hong Kong

The group is strongly capitalized and is highly liquid

Active managers will outperform in the low-growth era: UBS

Increased volatility across markets was in line with the structural inverse behavioural relationship between earnings growth rates and volatility, he said.

Nomura Readies Brexit Move

The German entity Nomura Financial Products Europe GmbH, will be staffed by personnel from London and local hires.

Three Japanese banks to become operational in KSA by October: Envoy

Japan has trained more than 10,000 Saudi engineers and technical personnel and will lend further support for an ambitious training program as part of the commitment of the Saudi-Japan Vision 2030 Committee.

BNZ faces more than 30 claims after outage

BNZ promised to ensure customers were not out of pocket for the outage which has been blamed on a power failure in Australia affecting the data centre run by its parent company National Australia Bank.

HSBC loses senior European deal-makers as M&A ranking drops: sources

They also highlight the difficulties European banks face in catching up with Wall Street rivals, whose dominance in investment banking league tables has increased.

Moody’s Analytics and United Overseas Bank win The Asian Banker’s Credit Risk Technology Implementation of the Year award

United Overseas Bank automates data consolidation and computation for compliance reporting with regtech solution from Moody’s Analytics

ANZ Bank sells NZ life insurer for $645m

ANZ on Wednesday said it would make a $NZ50 million gain on the sale, which would slightly improve its group-wide common equity tier 1 capital ratio, by 5 basis points.

Nomura Seeks Dealmakers for Reboot of Principal Investment Arm

Will hire from private equity firms to double headcount to 30

Nomura’s Views on the ISS Report

Continuing on from last year, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. has issued a recommendation to vote against the proposal.

UBS Picks a Side in Anbang

The power grab is part of a wide-ranging crackdown on corruption in China, and the winding down Anbang's myriad holdings around the world is a showcase piece of the process.

OCBC launches new financial advisory and lifestyle programme targeted at seniors

According to OCBC's research, seniors have a higher-than-expected risk appetite and that "returns from investments" was the most popular choice when it comes to deciding their primary source of income during their retirement years.

Deutsche Bank job cuts being felt from Britain to Australia

Cuts in London-based emerging markets M&A team and in corporate finance in Australia

Inquiry looks at CBA Bankwest controversy

CBA has always rejected allegations it engineered customer defaults to reduce the price it paid for Bankwest

Malaysia’s Maybank posts highest-ever Q1 profit on lower expenses

The results were supported by a better cost-to-income ratio of 47.6 per cent, versus 50.1 per cent a year ago, as fee-based and fund-based income growth outpaced rise in overhead expenses, the bank said in a statement on Monday.

Banking royal commission: ‘No excuse for failures’ as NAB turns focus to customer

The royal commission held its second day of hearings yesterday into the treatment by banks of small business operators, focusing on problems that hit operators of pool, ice-cream and pie franchises.

Malaysia’s Maybank Asset Management completes fund manager buys, gets new CEO

The company acquired AMB for 16.12 million ringgit and SUTL for 34.88 million ringgit from Permodalan Nasional, Malaysia’s largest fund manager.

SMBC is the first Japanese bank to rethink coal financing policy

SMBC is among the lenders on the financing for the Nghi Son 2 coal-fired plant in Vietnam, which closed in April.

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