Around the world banks are optimistic they can save billions of dollars by utilising blockchain. UBS, HSBC and wealth fund Temasek are among the latest high profile investors into the financial technology.
For a long time, all things «green» were considered an idiosyncrasy of alternative types. In the meantime, however, sustainable products have become a firmly established part of everyday life – in finance too.
Western Asset, a Legg Mason fixed income specialist affiliate, has announced a newly created role of investment specialist and client executive.
The World Bank Group and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have signed a memorandum of cooperation, agreeing to establish and develop the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network.
Investors increasingly uncertain about the prospects of the Trump administration may be well advised to take a closer look at Asian markets, Fidelity International's Tim Orchard tells finews.asia.
Lombard Odier's asset management arm has hired a new distribution team in London to cater to European family offices. The team will be led by a former Goldman Sachs banker.
Swiss Re is establishing an underwriting hub for its property and casualty insurance business in Asia. The move will result in two key leadership changes.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has announced the appointment of a new chief executive for the Philippines.
Beijing seems to be loosening its grip on personal wealth leaving the country. A two-year suspension on foreign firms raising money in the country for overseas investment is set to be lifted.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group has appointed a managing executive officer to lead the global business development of its asset management business.
Fund manager HSBC Global Asset Management has hired a Distribution head from Credit Suisse as well as head of Institutional Business from Havenport Asset Management.
Maples and Calder, which advises on the laws of the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, has appointed four new Partners across its global network including its Hong Kong office.
Australia's «big four» banks have launched a second strongly worded attack on the government's new levy on the country's largest lenders.
Singapore fintech hub Lattice80 and Nanyang Polytechnic are set to partner on a new fintech experiential attachment programme.
More approachable and unafraid of posing impertinent questions. UBS is cultivating a new breed of bankers – to eventually replace a generation of stock- and bond-pickers being made redundant by technology.
According to Morgan Stanley many robo-advice startups, who are surfing a long wave of disruption, could be heading for trouble themselves.
Market factors traditionally used by investors are changing so rapidly that many processes completely cease being predictable, financial expert German Lillevali writes.
Schroders, the U.K.-based investment manager, has created the job of global head of sales and has put a banker in charge who spent a quarter of a decade working for UBS.
Swiss bank Lombard Odier has announced an update on its management structure in Asia.
Assets under management at Julius Baer reached at record in the first four months of the year, a result partly of its hiring of new relationship managers, particularly in Asia.
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