International offshore law firm Harneys has sprinted out of the blocks into 2017 with the appointment of 8 new partners including several promotions in its key Asian hub.
The Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong has banned a former HSBC employee from re-entering the industry for life after his actions led to substantial losses to clients.
finews.asia went live one year ago today. It was an eventful 12 months for finance in Asia, and readers grew to rely on the high-quality news and expertise provided by the finews.asia team.
Investments in infrastructure offer stable and predictable cash flows. That’s what institutional investors like for their asset-liability-matching, Mirjam Staub-Bisang writes in her essay for finews.first.
Baume & Mercier-CEO Alain Zimmermann spoke to finews.asia about why selling fine jewellery on the Champs-Elysees is different from selling on Orchard Road.
Private banking’s money-laundering scandals have piled up in recent months – in large part due to emerging markets. Many firms have ignored risks in favor of juicy potential potential returns.
U.S. officials are casting an eye on millions in «tuna bonds» issued for impoverished Mozambique. As one of the bond-runners, Credit Suisse is at the center of the case.
2016 was the year that 1MDB came to a head: billions in ill-gotten assets were seized, two Swiss banks shut down in Singapore, and three people sentenced to prison time.
A Chinese billionaire has found a way for the Chinese middle class to invest in the fine art market. His plan is either brilliant, or madness.
These Swiss bankers took a huge professional step this year – if not the defining one of their career. Here's is finews.asia's compilation of who to watch out for in 2017.
This year saw countless prominent and surprising exits by private bankers, including several linked to the burgeoning 1MDB scandal. Here are the ten most spectacular departures of 2016.
One of Donald Trump's most prominent campaign promises was to «drain the swamp» in Washington – a hit with establishment-weary voters. The president-elect has set himself up to fail.
What are the best finance films of all time? finews.asia reviews this year's new releases as well as old classics to bring you a run-down of the essential viewing for the aspiring Wall Streeter – those which tell a riveting story and which stand the test of time.
It’s amazing, but 2016 is coming to a quick close. It’s hard to believe we are almost on the eve of 2017.
Credit Suisse’s mortgage settlement in the U.S. presents an opportunity for chairman Urs Rohner to retreat. The Swiss bank has scant chance of retrenching under his leadership.
Credit Suisse says it has clinched a billion-dollar U.S. settlement over how it sold securities made up of dud mortgages to investors in the run-up to the financial crisis.
The holiday season is also a season when many experience a financial windfall: in December, the thirteenth month salary lands on employee bank accounts. And the story behind this has Christmas-related origins.
Deutsche Bank has reached a settlement in the U.S. regarding civil claims in connection with the bank’s issuance and underwriting of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007.
We have a tendency to attribute innovations to one individual, so ascribing them exclusively to a specific innovator. In reality, innovations are mostly processes, Vontobel's Georg von Wattenwyl writes.
Australia's financial regulator has commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Westpac subsidiaries Westpac Securities Administration and BT Funds Management.
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