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China to strengthen financial ties with ASEAN
Needed to safeguard regional financial stability.
China to strengthen financial ties with ASEAN
Needed to safeguard regional financial stability.
New RBI Governor takes office today
Raghuram Rajan faces staggering problems from sinking rupee.
Philippine banks improve world rankings
Banco de Oro Unibank remains top Philippine bank.
Maybank Kim Eng, State Securities Commission ink deal on Vietnam securities market
The 3-year agreement will strengthen the market.
Indian Central Bank issues liquidity infusion
Last week the Indian Central Bank took us by a surprise with some of the retrograde steps which calmed down the unrest in the fixed income and equity...
ING divesting South Korean insurance business
Sale to complete by Q4.
Chinese banks’ credit cards finding wider acceptance in Africa
China UnionPay now available in Tanzania.
China Everbright fires president
Cites embarrassing trading errors.
Here are the key challenges for the new authority of finance in Taiwan
Head of Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan has been replaced in July. In his inauguration speech, Mr. Tseng M.J. pointed out that cross...
Why linking central bank base interest rate to unemployment level is unwise
Consultants and others who have perfected the art of talking a lot without saying anything (and getting paid for their efforts) are frequently in the...
China to form financial industry super regulator
Will coordinate monetary and financial supervisory policies.
PBOC's total RMB deposits dropped by RMB257b in July
Blame it on these 2 culprits.
Singapore’s private banking services sector by the numbers
Government says sector has created good quality jobs.
Major senior management reshuffle at MAS
Shake-up aimed at strengthening the central bank’s leadership.
RMB offshoring gathers pace
Over the past couple of years, the issuance of offshore RMB bonds has soared, with levels expected to reach the equivalent of 360 billion yuan this...
An over-engineered finance industry has gone too far
The other day I conducted a simple statistical experiment. I calculated the “value-at-risk” exposure for an hypothetical investment portfolio...
China removes cap on life insurance interest rate
Strengthens market-oriented reforms in its financial system.