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MUFG Bank has established a sector coverage and acquisition finance team as part of its strategic efforts to sharpen its business focus around key ind ...

The Asian G3 bond market manifested a robust issuance activity in the first quarter of 2019, with the volume amounting to US$81.67 billion, driven by ...

The benefits of attracting foreign capital to local bond markets has long been a mantra in Asia, and has been enshrined in the most developed economie ...

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As the board of editors concluded the review of the over 300 solutions on treasury, trade, supply chain and risk management submitted by service provi ...

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In another major coup for China’s overseas engagement, Switzerland is set to be the latest country to sign up to the Belt and Road initiative. The m ...

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Achieving operational and financial efficiency is on every CFO and treasurer’s to-do list in the way they perform their treasury functions. This may ...

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THE US-China trade dispute reshaped the world’s economic and financial landscape in 2018, and it might continue to do so for years to come. That’s ...

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At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos last month, the evidence of mounting threats to nature, and of nature’s contributions ...

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When The Asset suggested that he was part of the nucleus of Asia’s Next-Gen central bank governors, Nestor Espenilla Jr, laughed off the idea. “I� ...

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As the concept of open banking seeps into the financial mainstream, smaller players in China are looking to benefit from greater opportunities arising ...

The distinction between philanthropy and impact investing is slowly becoming less defined, and the pursuits will need to draw even closer to meet burg ...

Though 2019 may be fraught with challenges, Gregory Suen of HSBC Global Asset Management believes Asia remains a good long-term bet. The region’s fi ...

Yoma Strategic Holdings has priced the first cross-border bond issuance by a Myanmar-focused company in the Thai capital market amounting to 2.22 bill ...

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Across Asia women hold numerous leadership roles in banks, insurers, fintechs, financial services firms and regulators. And each year they are making ...

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The Pakistani government has informed China that it wishes to cancel the 1,320MW Rahim Yar Khan power project, one of the major power generation proje ...

As the Greater Bay Area (GBA) gradually tightens the links between Hong Kong and mainland China, financial institutions and technology companies in th ...

Henry Sy, Sr, founder of the SM group in the Philippines, passed away on the 19th of January 2019 at the age of 94. The Asset shares insights of meeti ...

Against all odds, initial coin offerings (ICOs) continued to flourish in 2018. Start-up ventures across the world raised more than US$15 billion thro ...

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The momentum within Asia’s diverse blockchain ecosystem was well documented during 2018, characterised by a thriving jobs market, the hosting of a r ...

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