Investment Banking

Maybank and CIMB in talks to buy RHB Capital

Reuters reports Malaysia's top two banks, Maybank and CIMB Group, are beginning rival talks to buy RHB Capital, which could lead to creating...

Maybank and CIMB in talks to buy RHB Capital

Reuters reports Malaysia's top two banks, Maybank and CIMB Group, are beginning rival talks to buy RHB Capital, which could lead to creating...

Mega banned: Indonesia’s Mega Bank banned from opening new branches

Mega has weak internal control, and Bank Indonesia isn’t happy about it.

Chinese banks threatened by new capital rules

The China Banking Regulatory Commission's new 4% leverage ratio requirement means more pressure to maintain a solid capital base.

Investment operations get back to the gym

A new wave of fitness training for investment operations is getting underway. Straight Through Processing (STP) systems achieved a certain level of...

Moody's assigns an Aa1 rating to UOB's senior unsecured notes

The ratings agency retained the stable outlook for the notes to be issued through UOB's SGD5 billion Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) program.

CQG and Dot Commodity agreed service broker contract

Dot Commodity's clients can also utilize CQG’s suite of server-side tools, CQG Spreader and the Market Aggregation expression, for execution and...

Japan quake impact to global economy call for G-20 policy coordination

Asian countries will feel the financial effects of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

NAB buys 35% stake in New York property fund manager

The move is part of the lender’s wealth strategy of investing in real estate business.

CCB eyeing stake in EON Capital

China Construction Bank is keen to acquire a stake in Malaysian lender EON Capital Bhd.

Mizuho plans tapping BlackRock for acquiring Asian investment managers

The move will give way for the bank to invest Japanese pension money fast growing Asian economies.

Moody's assigns A3 to CIMB Bank's proposed EMTN

Moody's assigned a provisional foreign currency rating of A3 to CIMB Bank's US$1 billion Multi-Currency Euro Medium Term Notes Programme.  

China’s hedge funds show promise, development remains slow due to regulatory hurdles

The Chinese banking sector continues to flourish and the number of hedge fund investors is increasing rapidly in the country on the back of its...

Deduction of cost incurred to acquire treasury share under an employee share scheme

Back in the 2005, the Singapore Companies Act was amended to allow companies to hold its own shares in treasury.

Foreign-Invested Partnerships: New vehicles for private equity investments in the PRC

Several foreign private equity investors set up their investment vehicles in China in the form of "foreign-invested partnerships".

Indonesia issues a Merger Control Regulation

The recently issued "Merger Control Regulation" introduces new notification requirements for mergers, consolidations or acquisitions in Indonesia.