11/17/2013
The last 12 months has been another year of change for the financial services industry. We have begun the move from inter- and intranational debate about the shape and purpose of regulation, to a period of understanding the implications for business follo
11/17/2013
The foreign exchange trading investigation is the latest multinational probe of financial benchmarks that affect trillions of dollars in personal and business transactions.
11/16/2013
The new rules also allow foreign bank subsidiaries to list locally.
11/13/2013
Maybank Group CRO Named 'Bank Risk Manager Of The Year'
The Asia-based publication covers derivatives and risk management.
11/13/2013
The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced today that an assessment under the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Financial Sector Assessment Programme 1 has found Singapore's financial sector to be well-regulated and highly developed.
11/12/2013
King & Wood Mallesons and Latham & Watkins are among the firms that have landed roles in the $1.1bn IPO of Huishang Bank
11/11/2013
Singaporean firm WongPartnership has broadened its regional coverage by forging a strategic alliance with Malaysian boutique Foong & Partners.
11/10/2013
Each of the partners in Mourant Ozannes' Hong Kong office has been singled out for praise in the latest edition of Legal 500's Asia Pacific legal directory
11/05/2013
All three partners, Jenne Tzavaras, Joanna Apostolopoulos and Ivan Medak, have joined HWL Ebsworth as partners in the firm’s Sydney insurance team.
11/05/2013
Former Norton Rose China chief joins PRC start-up firm
DaHui Lawyers is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Burrows as Senior Consultant with effect from 1 November 2013.
11/04/2013
The name of the private bank in Chinese - Shoufa - has been approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, but it still needs to be approved by the People's Bank of China and China Banking Regulatory Commission.
11/04/2013
Japan's financial regulator widened its probe into whether all three of the country's big banks conducted transactions with Japanese gangsters, known as the yakuza
11/04/2013
Conyers Dill & Pearman has been recognised as a ‘tier-one’ firm in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2014 directory released this month. Recommended in the Hong Kong Offshore Law Firms category
11/03/2013
Two more Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme financial jurisdictions are missing from the latest official list.
11/03/2013
Shanghai-headquartered AllBright has become the latest Chinese firm to expand into Hong Kong.
11/03/2013
He also has extensive experience of practice in South East Asia, having spent much of the last 20 years in the region, initially with Richards Butlers and then with DLA Piper.
11/03/2013
The purchase of Chong Hing Bank by Guangzhou’s Yue Xiu will be the first takeover of a Hong Kong bank since the $4.7 billion deal for Wing Lung Bank by China Merchants Bank in June 2008
11/02/2013
Authorities in the US and elsewhere check whether practices breached bribery laws
10/31/2013
ASIA’s financial leaders are looking into implementing a high-level policy framework to strengthen the monitoring of financial institutions that provide services similar to that of a traditional bank.
10/31/2013
The newly merged firm will be governed by the international management committee