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Q: Uzbekistan is undertaking a number of reforms to open up the country. These changes include steps to improve business…
More than a decade after the 2007-08 global financial crisis erupted, inflation in the euro area has still not reached…
Mugur Isărescu has been governor of central bank the National Bank of Romania (NBR) for almost 30 years – apart from…
Protests in Iran over new fuel pricing measures introduced in November 2019 quickly evolved into violent confrontations between the regime…
Fintech is an increasingly important buzzword for the governments of the Arabian Gulf countries. Each of the six states of…
Xenophon of Athens believed that the technique of household management depended both on the art of managing the polis and…
Several high-profile supply chain attacks in the last year, including SolarWinds, Accellion, Microsoft Exchange, and Kaseya, have shone a spotlight…
The economic axis between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council nations is strengthening, with trade volumes projected to double to…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the landscape of the banking industry in the Middle East, enhancing the way both traditional lenders…
The year 2024 will be remembered not only for shattering climate records, with temperatures exceeding the 1.5C threshold outlined in…
Banks are struggling to reach full compliance with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act by the January 2025 deadline, those…
Imagine a modern-day family, where parents were about to send their children to school. There would be no question that…
To all our readers – thank you for your continued support in 2024 from the FinanceAsia team. We would…
Databricks, a San Francisco-headquartered data and artificial intelligence (AI) company, has completed a substantial portion of a $10 billion…
January 13 marks the third anniversary of Africa’s ambitious Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, an initiative of Afreximbank, the African…
Asia Healthcare Holdings (AHH), which runs a specialty hospitals focused healthcare platform, has received $150 million of backing GIC,…
A mix of lower interest rates, lower defaults and more issuances bode well for corporates and governments looking to…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) will offer eligible digital bond issuances up to HK$2.5 million ($320,000) in a…
Unscrupulous businesses and political elites have siphoned off billions of dollars worth of money each year from the impoverished…
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales…
The use of generative artificial intelligence will take Singapore’s biggest bank to the next level, predicts Nimish Panchmatia, chief data…
UniCredit chief Andrea Orcel’s unexpected moves on Commerzbank and Italy’s Banco BPM have unsettled both German and Italian politicians, and…
I started my tenure as chairwoman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) in September 2011 at the start…
It is no secret that US dollar (USD) Libor is coming to an end. By the end of this year,…
Frankfurt am Main is renowned not only as the birthplace of its most famous poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and…
Donald Trump’s election to a second term as US president has led to a bullish mood among the investment banking…
One of the strangest media stories of the pandemic has been the mass predictions of ‘de-urbanisation’ or ‘death’ of our…
The power of every nation is its sovereignty and independence. Most economic communities created across multiple countries are today trading…
Japan’s Nippon Life has agreed to acquire global life insurance player Resolution Life for around $8.2 billion, according to…
Crédit Agricole has further entangled the battle over Banco BPM by increasing its holdings in the Italian lender, which also…
Japan’s Nippon Life has agreed to acquire global life insurance player Resolution Life for around $8.2 billion, according to…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) Annual Meetings bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development,…
The US president-elect Donald Trump is widely expected to introduce policies that could slow down the rate-cutting pace by…
Vietnam’s main indices returned nearly 10% in 2024, supported by a robust economic backdrop and corporate reforms that have…
Ashvin (Ash) Parkash has joined BNY on December 9 as head of global markets trading for Asia Pacific (Apac). …
Please view highlights from the event. Is your US equity index capturing market opportunities? Investors continue to be…
The Covid-19 pandemic is profoundly affecting people worldwide, taking its toll on human lives and highlighting the global inequalities in…
In October, FinanceAsia named the winners of our inaugural China Awards for best service providers, best transaction banks and solutions, best…
Congratulations to this year’s winners of our Achievement Awards for Australia and New Zealand. Today, we publish part 1…
Global equities remain shaken following the closure of California based, tech-focussed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The US Dow Jones…
South Korea’s stock market, the KOSPI, is set to reopen at 9am Korean time on Wednesday, December 4 after…
On Wednesday October 20 Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund announced it had led a $400 million investment in Indonesia’s…
Ashvin (Ash) Parkash has joined BNY on December 9 as head of global markets trading for Asia Pacific (Apac). …
The board of ANZ Group has appointed Nuno Matos will become chief executive officer (CEO). Matos will relocate from…
Since its creation two decades ago, the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBBH) has operated under the currency board…
FinanceAsia is excited to announce the launch of our 2019 series of China Awards. Dedicated to rewarding commitment, FinanceAsia,…
It is a very rare year when UBS does not win best investment bank in Australia from FinanceAsia. And this…
New research by the Climate Bonds Initiative shows green bonds are more heavily oversubscribed than vanilla equivalents, tighten more…
Celebrating its 25th anniversary year, FinanceAsia is pleased to list the companies across key industry sectors which investors and…
Budweiser Brewing APAC’s initial public offering in Hong Kong was the biggest IPO in Asia in September and is…