Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Philippines: Security Bank divests controlling stake in realty firm Security Land for $34m

The shares are being sold to Keyland Corp, Adelantado Corp, and Blue Sphere Properties Inc.

Local law firm wins top award

The team was also named Employer of Choice at the awards.

CPA Ireland Enters Strategic Partnership with ICMA Pakistan

Under the agreement, members in good standing of either professional accountancy body will be considered for membership by the other body and will enjoy the benefits which each organisation offers.

'Climate of legal secrecy' keeping Ross Asset Management investors in the dark

Bruce Tichbon, a spokesman for the RAM Investors Group, said investors did not have access to the papers filed with the Court of Appeal.

Bank Negara, SC welcome PBOC’s move to grant RQFII quota of 50 billion yuan

The SC will further collaborate with the China Securities Regulatory Commission to implement the RQFII programme

Bangladesh: Banks instrumental in curbing illicit money outflow

Bankers should be trained to stop trade misinvoicing, speakers say at BIBM conference

Twelve Chinese hedge fund houses unreachable by phone, text, email - fund association

China's hedge fund industry has grown rapidly over the past several year

China's anti-graft watchdog demotes four banking regulators

China's top graft-buster agency has demoted four bank regulators for violating Communist Party rules and procedures, in the latest punishment issued to the country's financial sector in President Xi Jinping's three-year anti-corruption camp

This is what your accounting salary should be in Singapore

Of the six accounting jobs, internal audit is the best to work in if you want a high senior salary – directors earn S$205k US$145k a year on average and MDs receive S$265k US$188k.

What is your Government’s attitude to immigration by Entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals? - Withers

Is there a difference in attitude between active and passive investment?

Serious Fraud Office investigating multiple corruption claims

New laws have put four Kiwi firms under the spotlight, writes Richard Meadows.

Competition Commission set to produce fresh banking targets for investigation

The law that grants the commission the power to act on protecting consumer and fighting anticompetitive behaviour affecting competition in Hong Kong will come into effect on December 14.

China Cracks $64 Billion `Underground Bank' Moving Money Abroad

The case brought the total for underground banking and money-laundering activities to 800 billion yuan since April

Blacklisted HK: The Spanish Case

Friends of Harbour Times would be familiar with the remedy of Hong Kong being named a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction by the European Union earlier this year.

Overhaul of China’s criticised financial regulation ‘must involve dominant role for central bank’

Wu Xiaoling, former vice-governor of the People’s Bank of China, says Beijing must learn from mistakes after its clumsy response following the summer’s stock market crash

Debevoise Advises Russia China Investment Fund in its Investment in TutorGroup

Proceeds from the new investment round are to be used to accelerate TutorGroup’s international expansion, as well as for the continued enhancement of the company’s platform.

The World’s Largest Law Firm Will Have 7,300+ Lawyers

Expected to launch in 2016

Commonwealth Bank vows to clean up its act after fraud allegations

COMMONWEALTH Bank chairman David Turner wants Australia’s biggest bank to also be its most ethical following the damning financial advice scandal and allegations it fraudulently impaired loans.

China’s Banks Test U.S. Legal System

Bank of China says turning over account records would violate Chinese law

ASIC forces Formax to remove false statements on retail forex subsidiary ACMAS’s license suspension

Formax is controlled by Chinese investors, is based in the Cayman Islands, and has forex brokerage subsidiaries in New Zealand and the UK, where Formax recently received an FCA license.

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