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Schroder Asia Pac adds SimCorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... applications, has been live at the firm since July this year. The firm now has the system in its Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Japan offices, which includes 800 portfolios and over 20,000 transactions a month. Schroder implemented the system across ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
China may be the darling of economic groupies, India the superpower in waiting, but realisation is growing that Indonesia may be their rocket fuel. Regional analysts have been so taken with the possibility that editorials around Asia are now spruiking ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... 'temporarily' short-circuited by intervention from Asian central banks (again). South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong bought the greenback to avoid being 'beggared' - hurt their exports - by its depreciation. And this ...

ANZ buys RBS businesses for $687 million

ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... release this morning, the acquisition includes the RBS retail, wealth and commercial businesses in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong - along with institutional businesses in Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam. The portfolio of businesses represents ...

AIA arises from AIG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... for future growth, said Wilson. The Australian re-branding follows similar initiatives in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam although the changes are still subject to relevant regulatory ...

AIA public listing one step closer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... and 250,000 agents across branch offices, subsidiaries and affiliates in Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. AIG Life Australia, according to Plan For Life ...

FTSE launches Asian sector indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... series of indices provide access to countries included on the FTSE Asia Pacific Index including China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Thailand. Each sector index is derived from individual subsectors ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... the world are not sitting by watching their economies sink. And they'll 'do what is necessary.' Just last week, Bank Indonesia, Norway's Norges Bank and the Bank of England all cut their key interest rates by 50 bps to 8.25 per cent, 2.5 per cent and ...

Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... cheapest places to trade with an average trading cost of around 20bp. In contrast, trading shares in Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia could cost anywhere between 80bp to 140bp. Australia ranks alongside Hong Kong with average trading costs of 35bp while ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... economy battered by the global slowdown and compounded by a rising currency. Elsewhere in Asia, the central banks of Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea cut interest rates. The Bank of Korea reduced interest rate to a record low of 2.5 per cent early in ...