Julius Baer said it hired four new private bankers in Bahrain in a bid to bolster its market share in the oil-rich kingdom as well as neighboring Saudi Arabia.
finews.asia spoke to Liew Nam Soon, managing partner for ASEAN financial services at EY.
Credit Suisse delayed implementing tough, but necessary measures for long. The bank on Wednesday will just have to finally come clean, and to name the cuts needed to achieve its targets.
Swiss fund managers are now permitted to manage collective investment schemes distributed to public investors in Hong Kong. Fund managers in Hong Kong are granted reciprocal rights in Switzerland.
Jack Ma, founder of the world’s largest e-commerce platform, has coined a new phrase to define the mission of Alipay to help more young people, small companies and poor nations gain access to capital.
London-based bank Standard Chartered has recruited a top lawyer from Barclays' legal team. The new general counsel, currently based in London, will relocate to Singapore.
Melbourne-based banking group ANZ has appointed a Head of Sustainable Finance Solutions (SFS), Loans & Specialised Finance.
Bank Hapoalim's private banking business in Miami has been sold to a large financial services group. The acquisition is expected to be completed during the course of the first quarter of 2017.
A stream of Asian and international banks have had their reputations tarnished. Individuals have been jailed and more are involved in ongoing high profile legal cases. Welcome to the world of 1MDB.
The Former Head of Private Banking at ABN Amro Southeast Asia has moved across town to join the growing ranks at EFG Singapore.
One day on from announcing Kansas Chan as the new head of North Asia wealth management, Deutsche Bank has made an addition to its Greater China wealth unit.
For 1MDB-Related Anti Money Laundering breaches, The Monetary Authority of Singapore has imposed financial penalties on more banks in the city state.
Jupiter's Fund manager Jason Pidcock avoids economies and businesses in which governments are closely involved. Singapore is the market where he breaks his own rule. Why?
A Singapore-based Intelligence Centre focusing on cybersecurity information within the financial services sector, is expected to begin operations in the first half of 2017.
Societe Generale is the first global investment bank to strike an agreement with an emerging fintech company to provide equity research that is compliant with evolving research unbundling requirements.
The CEO of Credit Suisse Australia is set to take up the role of Chairman of the The Australian Financial Markets Association.
A picturesque village in Graubuenden, a mountainous region in Switzerland, is home to the world's first ATM to dispense Swiss chocolate – free of charge.
Vontobel's asset management arm apparently didn't have a job for Aris Prepoudis. The former Vescore and Notenstein asset management head is about to surface in a new CEO role, finews.asia can reveal.
German lender Deutsche Bank has promoted from within to fill the vacant role of North Asia wealth management head.
A global law firm has joined the DBS HotSpot Pre-Accelerator programme as legal mentors. Intellectual property and compliance issues are often neglected by innovators too absorbed at the creative end.
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