China recently stunned markets with a proposal to allow audits of companies listed abroad. Market expert Qi Wang provides his take in an interview with finews.asia.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been hardening her public stance on China as of late, underlining issues related to Ukraine and Taiwan just before the IMF and World Bank member countries convene for their Spring Meetings in Washington next week.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection – China’s top anti-corruption watchdog – is reportedly amongst the agencies involved in the recent inquiry about fintech giant Ant's ties with state-owned firms.
Institutional broker CLSA is reportedly considering relocating its flagship investor forum from Hong Kong to Singapore, in yet another example of business disruption caused by strict zero-Covid measures.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) pulled out the bigger guns Thursday in its battle against fast-rising inflation.
The main Swiss banks may be able to skirt around much of the U.S. bank’s post-COVID drop in earnings – for now.
Family offices looking to benefit from Singapore’s tax incentives are set to face tighter requirements including greater asset size and more string hiring criteria.
Tokyo prosecutors have charged a former vice president Japan’s SMBC Nikko Securities for alleged market manipulation.
Natixis affiliate Ostrum Asset Management has appointed an HSBC Global Asset Management veteran as its head of equities.
Blackrock is reportedly planning to launch its first exchange-traded fund in mainland China, marking the first wholly-owned foreign fund manager to enter the country’s passives market.
Russia is one of the world's largest gold-producing countries after China and Australia. It has built up huge gold reserves but is now struggling to cash these in.
HSBC will continue to expand its wealth management efforts in Asia this year with plans to reportedly match the number of staff hired in 2021.
The former head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority spoke out about U.S. sanctions, calling the weaponization of financial markets a driver of de-dollarization.
Another group representing shareholders is recommending against discharging Credit Suisse management in the Greensill debacle.
Uncertainty is widespread with top strategists throughout the industry showing little conviction in their investment calls, according to Hywin International chief executive Nick Xiao, noting that private banks face a threat from the shift away from public markets.
Swiss banks are coming off an excellent year. But not everyone is getting a fair shake when it comes to salary, a finews.com analysis shows.
Swiss bank Julius Baer is launching its own video game to attract future tech talent.
Luxembourg-based IQ-EQ names a new chief commercial officer for Asia.
The U.S. State Department condemned the Hong Kong government for its recent arrest of a local journalist over charges of producing seditious content, underlining that the city’s status as a financial center depends on the free flow of information.
The big question for the Monetary Authority of Singapore this week appears to be not whether it will tighten, but by how much.
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