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Custodian appoints new APAC head

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... Paribas Securities Services is now present in eight markets in the APAC region - Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore - where it employs about 2000 people. BNP Paribas Securities Services general manager Lawrence ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... global economy and a quarter of world trade. Participating countries include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, NZ, Peru, Singapore, USA and Vietnam.

PractiFI expands with $1.3m seed funding

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... round after raising capital to expand overseas. PractiFI raised $1.3 million in angel investor funding from Australia, Malaysia, the UK and US. "We are hugely excited that we have closed out our seed round and it's been oversubscribed", PractiFI chief ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... firm." After that, Hallifax and his family spent three months travelling through Ireland (where his wife is from), Borneo, Malaysia and the US. While they were in Hawaii, he received a call from a recruiter asking if he was interested in a position at ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... also right. The fall in commodity prices over the last few months has resulted in commodity importers such as India, Malaysia or Indonesia becoming more competitive in global markets. At the same time, global growth is starting to pick up after the global ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... development for Thailand or for any other country for that matter. But more tragic is the goings-on in its neighbour - Malaysia. Inclusive of its subsequent drop after the bombings, the SET index is down 8.3% to its lowest level since May 2014 this year ...

Islamic super fund sees 245% FUM growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... 60.7% to 30 June 2015 since inception in February 2013. Crescent Wealth has established a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and it intends to expand its business in other countries in South East Asia and the Middle East.

Australian funds turning to bourgeoning Asian REITs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... but after Japan passed legislation to pave the way for the product class in that year; Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and India have followed suit. China has also got in on the act with the launch of two listed funds in the last two ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... funds produce the data monthly, which is the gold standard globally. That's ahead of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, China and Thailand for monthly disclosure, though almost all of those countries have a high degree of semiannual ...

Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... growth focus areas, along with Canada, Egypt, India and Taiwan. Other growth areas for HSBC will be China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom. "The world is increasingly connected, with Asia expected to show high ...