Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 111 - 120 of 278 results for "Malaysia"

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... than most Asian countries. Over the same period, China's economy expanded by 6.7%; Vietnam by 5.5%, Indonesia by 4.9%, Malaysia by 4.2% and Thailand by 3.2%. According to the National Economic Development Authority, "This robust performance of the economy ...

Competitiveness at risk from STEM fall-off

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... and conducted by MasterCard the study surveyed 1,560 girls aged 12 to 19 years in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. China and India came out as the leaders in girls' uptake of STEM subjects at 76% and 69% respectively. Australian ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services wins mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... presence in 18 markets in Asia-Pacific including wholly-owned branches and subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Macau, Brunei, a 97% subsidiary in ...

ANZ rolls out new executive team

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... deputy chief executive officer who will have responsibility for ANZ's international partnership investments in Indonesia, Malaysia, China and The Philippines. Hodges will also remain acting chief financial officer. The internal and external search for ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... landscape, as well as its ability to attract investment. RBC describes countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Malaysia, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia - which score well on both fronts - as "demographic darlings" while those that score poorly are ...

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 ...