Tuesday, 19 November 2024

PEOPLE Wednesday, 4 May 2022 11:54

RBC Wealth Management Reshuffles Asia Leadership

RBC Wealth Management reshuffles management as the Southeast Asia head retires.

FINANCE Wednesday, 4 May 2022 10:26

StanChart to Offer T. Rowe Price Funds in Singapore

Standard Chartered Bank enters a tie-up to offer T. Rowe Price funds to retail clients.

PEOPLE Wednesday, 4 May 2022 10:09

Saxo Markets Bolsters Greater China Offering

A new executive is hired to oversee institutional coverage for the Greater China region.

FINANCE Wednesday, 4 May 2022 08:46

Swiss Banking Law Comes Under UN Criticism

Switzerland faces international criticism for its banking secrecy law which can deter journalists from reporting wrongdoings by banks.

PEOPLE Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:22

Finews Taps Former NZZ Senior Editor as Editor-in-Chief

A former Neue Zuercher Zeitung journalist is taking over as editor-in-chief of finews.ch and finews.com, bringing a wide range of journalistic and entrepreneurial experience to Switzerland's leading financial platform.

PEOPLE Tuesday, 3 May 2022 15:33

Barclays Nets Ex-Credit Suisse Prime Brokerage Executives

U.K. lender Barclays has reportedly hired more than a dozen former prime brokerage executives from Credit Suisse, including the ex-head of prime derivatives services and prime sales for the region.

PEOPLE Tuesday, 3 May 2022 14:19

Crypto Finance Appoints Head of Asia

Swiss digital asset specialist Crypto Finance AG has named a successor to head of Asia Alisher Tashpulatov with the relocation of a Swiss national to Singapore.

FINANCE Tuesday, 3 May 2022 12:36

HSBC’s Break-Up Call: De-Globalization in a Divided World

HSBC is facing calls by its largest shareholder, Chinese insurer Ping An, to break up its business by separating the Asia operations. Will reduced diversification serve the 157-year-old lender well in an increasingly divided world?

FINANCE Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:08

Beijing Tries a Different Way to Contain Covid

China's capital is the latest city battling a Covid outbreak although it reportedly isn't following Shanghai's contentious lockdowns.

HIGH-END Monday, 2 May 2022 15:41

Credit Suisse's Oligarch Yacht Saga Reaches U.S. Shores

Credit Suisse is facing a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. related to financing yachts and private airplanes of sanctioned persons.

FINANCE Saturday, 30 April 2022 02:18

Another Setback For Credit Suisse

The discharge vote was at the center of this year’s annual general meeting with proxy advisors against granting executives a discharge for 2020 before the event.

FINANCE Saturday, 30 April 2022 02:04

Boris Collardi: The Prodigal Son Returns

Without the colorful banker Boris Collardi, the Swiss banking industry was poorer by one controversial figure. But now the prodigal son has returned.

FINANCE Friday, 29 April 2022 17:07

Citi: Hong Kong Multimillionaire Population Shrinks

Hong Kong’s multimillionaire population dropped in 2021, according to a recent survey by Citi, in the midst of a challenging period for local equity markets.

FINANCE Friday, 29 April 2022 16:21

New Credit Suisse EMEA CEO No Longer Under Salary Cap

Credit Suisse's incoming CEO for Europe disagreed with remuneration policies imposed on her previous employer.

PEOPLE Friday, 29 April 2022 15:32

First Sentier Investors Appoints Japan Head of Distribution

Mitsubishi UFJ -owned asset manager First Sentier Investors has appointed a head of distribution in Japan.

FINANCE Friday, 29 April 2022 13:14

Boris Collardi Joins Swiss Private Bank

Former star banker Boris Collardi had been very quiet after leaving Pictet last August. Now, surprisingly, he is taking a stake in a Swiss private bank.

FINANCE Friday, 29 April 2022 12:39

China Woes Erase Global Bank Profits in Asia

Global banks across the board were hit in the first quarter by various China-linked headwinds including poor equity market performance and, most notably, its zero-Covid policy.

PEOPLE Friday, 29 April 2022 10:28

UBS Hires Asia Private Equity Expert

UBS will bolster its alternatives capabilities with the hire of a seasoned private equity expert, finews.asia has learned.

FINANCE Friday, 29 April 2022 09:26

UBS is Light Years Ahead of Credit Suisse

UBS reports its best quarter in fifteen years while Credit Suisse's business is half the size it was a year ago. A bitter rivalry takes an unexpected twist.

FINANCE Friday, 29 April 2022 09:25

Lights Out in Moscow for UBS and Credit Suisse

UBS and Credit Suisse are drawing down their offices in Moscow, albeit in small steps.

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