05/22/2018
The company, established in 1999 to manage the distressed assets belonging to the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, is state-owned, and its employees are essentially members of China’s public service.
05/22/2018
The announcement has been on the cards for some time after the two firms formed a ‘best friends’ alliance in April last year, which saw three partners and 16 lawyers move from Linklaters to Zhao Sheng.
05/22/2018
Look beyond the compliance side of the GDPR
05/22/2018
“This is a big mess,” said David Shin, Asia head of global equity derivative sales at TD Securities in Singapore.
05/21/2018
Senior counsel assisting the commission Rowena Orr and Michael Hodge are likely to focus on the impact of overzealous lending and enforcement when customers provided guarantees involving their property and other assets.
05/21/2018
BOS hopes the MOU will raise its profile among Japanese ultra-high and high net worth individuals.
05/21/2018
The diamond house is India’s second-largest wilful defaulter after Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines.
05/21/2018
The testimony, given to a powerful inquiry into the country’s financial sector, came as Australia’s “big four” lenders all admitted to misconduct in their submissions to a third round of public hearings that focuses on loans to sma
05/20/2018
Firm of the Year 2018: Hogan Lovells
05/20/2018
while instances of bribery and corruption in Singapore were lower than the global average, incidents related to money laundering were higher.
05/20/2018
“This will help banks to make a proper risk assessment about the credit worthiness and could reduce strict guidelines about a requirement for a collateral,” said U San Thein, senior adviser to German development agency GIZ and a former central
05/18/2018
When combined with existing concessions used by foreign pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, some foreign investors were paying tax rates of 15 per cent, or in some cases, far less, Treasury said.
05/18/2018
The regulator unveiled the plan in a draft amendment of the custodian rule posted on its website on May 4.
05/18/2018
Shipton said this could include making greater use of external expertise in investigations and enforcement actions.
05/17/2018
The National Tax Service of the Republic of Korea (NTS) submitted an EOI request to the Comptroller in September 2013, under a tax treaty between the Singapore and Korean governments.
05/17/2018
Duterte’s spokesman Harry Roque told reporters the president would give the instruction to the labor secretary after discussions with his special envoy to Kuwait, Abdullah Mama-o, who recommended the action to normalize the situation.
05/17/2018
FBR has already issued a list of 456 reporting financial institutions under common reporting standards for automatic exchange of information under the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) convention.
05/17/2018
Representatives who mis-sell investment products to vulnerable clients will face stiffer action and this has been reflected in the lengthier durations of the POs issued against Mr Hiah and Ms Heng.
05/17/2018
Mr Shipton said ASIC would use “every inch of [its] powers" to lift standards, but also slammed the behaviour of some businesses for not co-operating with the watchdog, or obstructing its work.
05/17/2018
It said the seizure of gold and silver jewellery was made on May 10 after the ED raided a strong-room belonging to Bharat Diamond Bourse.