Hong Kong’s Private Wealth Management Association and alternatives giant Blackstone are co-launching an educational program on private markets. The Private Wealth Management Association (PWMA) and ...

GenAI is already helping criminals circumvent standard CDD and KYC practices. The tried-and-tested process of keeping soft and hard copies of a private banking client’s passport or ID card for ...

Working abroad is something many people want to do but very few achieve. We could spend all day debating the exact definition of an expatriate as opposed to an economic immigrant and not get much done ...

How will China’s economy and markets perform under a Trump administration and a Republican Congress? Private banks believe the road ahead will not be smooth, though Beijing may have tools to cushion ...

Danish online trading platform Saxo has announced the appointment of a head for APAC as well as Singapore. Saxo has appointed Damian Hitchen as regional head of APAC and MENA, according to a statement ...

A bill is being proposed in Singapore that will allow police orders to restrict banking transactions in response to a growing number of financial scams. Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has ...

The private banking arm of Citi has appointed a managing director overseeing several markets in Southeast Asia, finews.asia has learned. Tay has worked at Citi Private Bank since 1997. Prior to her ...

There’s an increasing concern that Switzerland is missing the chance to shape the future of finance. In his commentary, finews.asia founder Claude Baumann clarifies that tomorrow's financial industry ...

It has been leaving all other countries in the dust, including the US, Japan, and South Korea. But the real question is why it isn’t a global leader in more sectors and industries. The conventional ...

Vontobel has released selective financial figures for the first nine months of the year and provided a strategy update, reaffirming confidence in its ongoing cost-cutting efforts. In its trading ...

The wider banking group was buoyed by a strong increase in non-interest income in the third quarter. Singapore-based Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) recorded a net profit of S$1.97 billion, ...

The political leadership on the mainland seems to be trying to put the geopolitical confrontation on a more positive footing following the presidential vote. According to the statement, he «urged» the ...