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Announcing the winners of The Asset Triple A Private Banking and Wealth Management Awards 2022.
6 Oct 2022
Editor's choice
Mark Carr has 25 years of experience with focus on developing, managing systems architecture
5 Oct 2022
Editor's choice
Retirement assets in Asia ex-Japan saw a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8% between 2017 and 2021, reaching total investable assets of US$4.6 trillion in 2021, a new report finds. Meanwhile, the percentage of assets outsourced to managers grew to 36.8% in 2021, from 30.6% in 2017, mainly driven by greater overseas exposure, Cerulli Associates says in its latest report, Asian Retirement Markets 2022: Weaving Stable Safety Nets.
5 Oct 2022
Editor's choice
The Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV) has released its latest study on fee and cost structures of non-listed real estate funds in Asia-Pacific, as part of its efforts to enhance transparency on fees for investors. According to the study, the average total global expense ratio (TGER) for non-listed real estate funds in the region stands at 1.12%, with notable variations across various vehicle characteristics such as vehicle style, structure or size.
1 Oct 2022
Editor's choice
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the world’s largest pension funds, is beefing up its presence in Asia, which it considers as a strategically important market. Despite the challenging business environment, OTPP expects the region to contribute significantly to its goal of reaching C$300 billion (US$216 billion) in net assets by 2030. It currently oversees C$242 billion.
3 Oct 2022
Editor's choice
SFOs applying for tax incentives must allocate 10% of assets to local investments
5 Oct 2022
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ESG Forum
Announcing the winners of the Index Provider Awards of The Asset Triple A Private Capital Awards for Private Banks, Wealth & Investment Bank Advisers, Solutions and Index Providers 2022.
26 Sep 2022
Agreena, a Danish agtech start-up that sells carbon credits generated by farmers who transition to more regenerative farming practices, has joined a distributed ledger technology (DLT) test project that aims to incorporate tokenized assets into traditional financial instruments.
22 Sep 2022
ABC Impact, an impact investment firm backed by Temasek Trust, the philanthropic unit of Singapore wealth fund Temasek, has invested in Innovafeed, a Paris-based producer of sustainable animal feed and plant nutrition ingredients from insects. Other investors in Innovafeed’s latest US$250 million funding round include global agribusiness companies ADM and Cargill, as well as existing investors Temasek and Creadev.
21 Sep 2022
Aims to invest US$59.9 million in solarZero, accelerate growth solar, battery tech platform
14 Sep 2022
Targets will guide bank’s financing activities on pathway to net zero by 2050 via measurable change
14 Sep 2022
Project’s close-to-nature approach part of Chinese region’s climate-resilient forestry planning
14 Sep 2022
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is looking into how to initiate a carbon credit market in the country to support companies that are undertaking green energy initiatives.
12 Sep 2022
As decarbonization depends on data, trust and transparency will be necessary to mobilize the capital needed to meet the country's ambitious climate-change targets
4 Sep 2022
Interest margin linked to achievement of sustainability targets across ESG areas
30 Aug 2022
The Asset Talk
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TechTalk
Digital currencies, tokenized assets potential to shape future payments, investment
Digital currencies, tokens have huge potential to shape future payments, investment
6 Oct 2022
Bank’s time deposit solution aligns Singapore firm’s treasury operations with net-zero goal
6 Oct 2022
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has partnered with data cloud firm Snowflake to transform how data is accessed, analyzed and shared across a number of its services.
3 Oct 2022
Regulators in India and Singapore have signed an agreement to promote collaboration on financial technology. Under the fintech cooperation agreement signed last week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) of India will seek to leverage each other’s existing regulatory sandbox.
30 Sep 2022
Asset Benchmark Research’s Treasury Review 2022 reveals how treasury management professionals are approaching technology in their day-to-day operations.
30 Sep 2022
Plan targets travellers with concerns about Covid changes in immigration, quarantine rules
29 Sep 2022
Traveloka, a travel and lifestyle digital platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, has raised US$300 million in a funding round led by BlackRock.
29 Sep 2022
HSBC and Oracle NetSuite have rolled out a solution that embeds banking services into a cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The offering, NetSuite AP Automation, aims to boost profitability by making it easier and faster for companies to process invoices and pay vendors, allowing clients to better control outgoing cash flows and easily scale end-to-end accounts payable processes.
29 Sep 2022
Region’s investor needs create huge digital, AI wealth management opportunities
27 Sep 2022
WTTB fund to focus on centralised finance, decentralised finance, Web3 infrastructure
23 Sep 2022
Digital payments giant Visa and financial software firm Finastra have launched a Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering that will enable financial institutions to offer faster cross-border payouts for their customers in multiple currencies and countries.
23 Sep 2022
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Summit5th Global Islamic Finance Issuers and Investors Leadership Dialogue27 Oct 2022
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Summit17th Philippine SummitOct 2022
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Summit17th Asia Bond Markets Summit09 Nov 2022
Treasury & Capital Markets
The Republic of the Philippines (RoP) successfully navigated volatile market environment as it priced on October 5 a three-tranche bond transaction totalling US$2 billion. This is the third time the sovereign accessed the international debt capital market this year and also the third time that it printed a sustainability tranche as part of the transaction.
6 Oct 2022
Digital currencies, tokenized assets potential to shape future payments, investment
Digital currencies, tokens have huge potential to shape future payments, investment
6 Oct 2022
Bank’s time deposit solution aligns Singapore firm’s treasury operations with net-zero goal
6 Oct 2022
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has partnered with data cloud firm Snowflake to transform how data is accessed, analyzed and shared across a number of its services.
3 Oct 2022
Issuance of G3 bonds in Asia, outside of Japan and Australia, dropped by 43.9% in the first nine months of 2022 to US$186.95 billion, compared with US$333.03 billion in the corresponding period of 2021. This was the lowest nine-month volume since January-September 2016 when the issuance amounted to US$176.13 billion as the market continued to be buffeted by volatility on the back of rising interest rates and higher inflation.
3 Oct 2022
Regulators in India and Singapore have signed an agreement to promote collaboration on financial technology. Under the fintech cooperation agreement signed last week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) of India will seek to leverage each other’s existing regulatory sandbox.
30 Sep 2022
Cagamas, the National Mortgage Corporation of Malaysia, has priced bond and sukuk issuances amounting to 1.63 billion (US$351.2 million) in both the domestic and international markets.
30 Sep 2022
Asset Benchmark Research’s Treasury Review 2022 reveals how treasury management professionals are approaching technology in their day-to-day operations.
30 Sep 2022
China's property sector still poses major risks to shadow bank lending in the country, although its share of the loans is declining.
29 Sep 2022
Traveloka, a travel and lifestyle digital platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, has raised US$300 million in a funding round led by BlackRock.
29 Sep 2022
Wealth
Capital Group has appointed Vanessa Huang as director of financial intermediaries for Singapore and Southeast Asia.
6 Oct 2022
Announcing the winners of The Asset Triple A Private Banking and Wealth Management Awards 2022.
6 Oct 2022
SFOs applying for tax incentives must allocate 10% of assets to local investments
5 Oct 2022
M&G Real Estate (M&G) has acquired the Minato Mirai Center Building, a prime-grade office tower in Yokohama, for more than 100 billion yen (US$700 million).
5 Oct 2022
SC Capital Partners Group has appointed four senior executives to strengthen its team in the Asia-Pacific region. They are Man Yik (M.Y.) Chiu as managing director and head of asset management for its Real Estate Capital Asia Partners (RECAP) series of opportunistic funds; June Kim Kyoung Joon as executive director for its Japan Hospitality Fund (JHF); Justin Cham as investment director; and Jester Perez as research director.
5 Oct 2022
Retirement assets in Asia ex-Japan saw a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8% between 2017 and 2021, reaching total investable assets of US$4.6 trillion in 2021, a new report finds. Meanwhile, the percentage of assets outsourced to managers grew to 36.8% in 2021, from 30.6% in 2017, mainly driven by greater overseas exposure, Cerulli Associates says in its latest report, Asian Retirement Markets 2022: Weaving Stable Safety Nets.
5 Oct 2022
Pierfront Capital Fund Management has announced the final close of its second private credit fund, the Keppel-Pierfront Private Credit Fund, raising investable capital of almost US$700 million.
3 Oct 2022
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the world’s largest pension funds, is beefing up its presence in Asia, which it considers as a strategically important market. Despite the challenging business environment, OTPP expects the region to contribute significantly to its goal of reaching C$300 billion (US$216 billion) in net assets by 2030. It currently oversees C$242 billion.
3 Oct 2022
The Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV) has released its latest study on fee and cost structures of non-listed real estate funds in Asia-Pacific, as part of its efforts to enhance transparency on fees for investors. According to the study, the average total global expense ratio (TGER) for non-listed real estate funds in the region stands at 1.12%, with notable variations across various vehicle characteristics such as vehicle style, structure or size.
1 Oct 2022
Pictet has appointed Victor Aerni as chief executive officer of wealth management in Asia, based in Singapore, with effect from July 1 2023.
29 Sep 2022
Asia Connect
Acwa Power has signed memorandums of agreement on the development of a desalination project and a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant in Senegal.
5 Oct 2022
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) has refinanced its US$3.5 billion revolving credit facility with a syndicate of 20 banks.
5 Oct 2022
Keppel Shipyard has won a tender from Brazilian oil major Petrobras to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of P-83, a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The contract is worth around US$2.8 billion.
5 Oct 2022
AC Energy (ACEN), the renewables arm of Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corporation, says its subsidiary ACEN Australia has secured a A$140 million (US$91 million) loan from MUFG’s Sydney branch.
30 Sep 2022
SMBC Aviation Capital has delivered the latest in a series of Airbus A320neo planes to Florida-based low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines.
28 Sep 2022
Air Liquide, Chevron, Keppel Infrastructure, and PetroChina have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a consortium to advance the development of large-scale carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) solutions and integrated infrastructure in Singapore.
28 Sep 2022
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (Taqa) have reached financial close on their US$3.8 billion project to power and decarbonize Adnoc’s offshore production operations.
28 Sep 2022
Chinese shipyard Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry has completed the construction of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for British oil giant BP’s Greater Tortue-Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas project offshore West Africa.
28 Sep 2022
Globe Telecom, a leading digital platform in the Philippines, announced on September 27 a sale and leaseback deal for another portfolio of telecommunication towers totalling 1,350 towers in a transaction valued at 20 billion pesos (US$339 million).
27 Sep 2022
Countries in Asia-Pacific need to address the funding gap for renewable energy projects to accelerate the transition to a net-zero future, a new study finds.
27 Sep 2022
On The Move
Anand Sairam has been part of Citi’s Finance team for eight years, most recently as Asia’s regional head of financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
F to focus on growing wallet share, strengthening regional wealth franchise
6 Oct 2022
Capital Group has appointed Vanessa Huang as director of financial intermediaries for Singapore and Southeast Asia.
6 Oct 2022
SC Capital Partners Group has appointed four senior executives to strengthen its team in the Asia-Pacific region. They are Man Yik (M.Y.) Chiu as managing director and head of asset management for its Real Estate Capital Asia Partners (RECAP) series of opportunistic funds; June Kim Kyoung Joon as executive director for its Japan Hospitality Fund (JHF); Justin Cham as investment director; and Jester Perez as research director.
5 Oct 2022
Patrick Graham has 25 years of leadership experience in insurance, financial services
3 Oct 2022
Pictet has appointed Victor Aerni as chief executive officer of wealth management in Asia, based in Singapore, with effect from July 1 2023.
29 Sep 2022
BNP Paribas Asset Management has appointed Jane Karen Ho as head of stewardship, Asia-Pacific, within its global sustainability centre, effective October 3.
28 Sep 2022
Natixis Investment Managers has appointed Dora Seow as chief executive officer for Singapore, effective October 10.
26 Sep 2022
HSBC Asset Management has appointed Brenda Wong as head of institutional business, North Asia, and Jasmine Hung as head of pensions and retirement, Hong Kong, effective October 1 and subject to regulatory approval.
23 Sep 2022
PGIM Quantitative Solutions, the quantitative and multi-asset solutions arm of PGIM, has bolstered its distribution team with the appointment of Cyrus Cottin as head of international distribution and the promotion of Pam Clancy as head of global consultant relations, effective immediately.
22 Sep 2022
Swiss bank UBS has appointed Sheryl Fofaria as head of social impact and philanthropy for Southeast Asia.
22 Sep 2022
Ilga Haubelt, Marty Dropkin have extensive investment management experience
21 Sep 2022
