03/13/2019
StanChart shuttered its cash equities business in 2015, but for UBS, formerly a top sponsor of IPOs in Hong Kong, the settlement – details of which haven’t been disclosed – must be a relief.
03/13/2019
Last November, Tim Leissner, who once headed Goldman Sachs’ Southeast Asian unit, pleaded guilty to violating US anti-bribery and money-laundering laws
03/12/2019
In a discussion paper to be published in Money Management, Steinhardt said the culprits which had caused the problems were not the banks, financial institutions or the larger, well-resourced licensees and dealer groups.
03/11/2019
StanChart and UBS banker Cen Tian were also scheduled to appeal against disciplinary action taken by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) over alleged misconduct during a 2009 IPO that the two banks sponsored, or led.
03/08/2019
This comes as Japan's Nomura is awaiting a licence to launch a wealth business in China, while JPMorgan and Bank of Singapore, a unit of Asian lender Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp are among others considering entries, the people said.
03/08/2019
Government officials are permitted to seize computers, search networks, and access and copy any data they require.
03/08/2019
Central banks are becoming more transparent, including the People’s Bank of China, which also no longer desires to intervene so often in the foreign exchange markets