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Zurich appoints chief underwriting officer

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... Hong Kong-based Philip Anderson, currently Zurich's head of protection business development for Asia Pacific and the Middle East (APME), returns to Australia to take on the new role. Prior to relocating to HK in 2004, Anderson also worked as a chief ...

Market Wrap PM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... institutional and international banking Alex Thursby will leave the bank at the end of April to become chief executive of a Middle East bank. ANZ fell two cents to $28.80. The three other big retail banks were also higher - CBA rose 49.5 cents to $69.445 ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... loose change. It would be so easy for the Eurozone to cut off the tiny island - geographically it's closer to the Middle East, central Asia and even Africa (I just had a look this morning on Google Maps) - but it has now replaced Greece as the weakest ...

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... high-quality but more affordable payment solutions is growing. Southeast Asia (including Myanmar and Vietnam), the Middle East and Africa have already been singled out as target markets.

Fed Investors Inc hires new Asia Pac CEO

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... lead efforts to identify opportunities throughout Asia, primarily in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, plus the Middle East

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts tip the world's biggest economy into recession. Heightened tensions in the Middle East undermined sentiment further, traders said. At the close of trading on Friday, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Two ANZ appointments for merged Asia/Pac business

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... bank AmBank in Malaysia and spent over 30 years with Standard Chartered Bank in senior executive roles covering the Middle East, North America, Africa, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Singapore. PlantA(C) and Mohan's new roles are effective 1 November 2012.

Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... year's figures. While the amount of deals done in China decreased, this was offset elsewhere, in greater Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Brazil. Latin America is just one of many markets, but conditions on the ground mimic those across much ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... Federal Reserve's new QE3 stimulus fade amid concerns about weakness in US manufacturing and anti-American unrest in the Middle East. At 0815 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down one point at 4,397. In economic news ...

Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Global demand for Sukuk is forecast to triple from US$300 billion to US$900 billion by 2017, according to recently released estimates from Ernst & Young. Conventional institutions are increasingly demanding Shari'a compliant securities alongside Islamic ...