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China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... the euro 27.2% and the British pound (8.5%). The yen made up 2.76%. And according to Bloomberg, citing a Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications' statement, "it was second for global issuance of letters of credit by value with a ...

Lazard launches new alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... stock markets." Lazard Asset Management offers a range of equity, fixed-income, and alternative investment products worldwide and had $203 billion in assets under management as of 30 June 2015, including affiliated companies.

Japan pension fund backs responsible investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... Abe announcing the news to the United Nations demonstrates the significance of this announcement not just in Japan but worldwide," Reynolds said. The Japanese fund has developed an action plan marking planned activities against each of the six Principles ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... Challenge is designed to be a "next-generation accelerator" that combines a virtual hackathon with a developer program, a worldwide network of fintech experts, and the bank's global reach to discover and incubate solutions from across more than 100 m ...

Afiniation adds weight to Citi fintech initiative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... referred to by the bank as a "next-generation accelerator" that combines a virtual hackathon with a developer program, a worldwide network of Fintech experts, and the bank's global reach to discover and incubate solutions from across more than 100 markets. ...

ANZ signs $450m tech agreement with IBM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... integration, content management, data, analytics and cloud software to gain deeper insights of its nine million customers worldwide. "Understanding our customers' needs and preferences around mobile and digital banking is critical to our business and ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... the promotion of investors' financial education." The report said that in 2013 the capital raised from crowdfunding worldwide was just under $8.5 billion (US$6.1 billion), while it accounted for $3.8 billion (US$2.7 billion) in 2012. "The amount of funds ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... PanAgora Asset Management manages about $53 billion across a range of strategies for over 125 institutional investors worldwide including large sovereign wealth funds as well as government and corporate pension funds. It manages about $2 billion for ...

Insto investor acquires $236.6m US property

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... head of US funds and investments Matthew Strotton said. The property was acquired from Breevast B.V., which invests worldwide in commercial and residential real estate and also develops and manages commercial and residential properties. This is the tenth ...

UBS adds three execs to asset management team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... supporting the group's growth initiatives in Australia. Prior to joining UBS, Alker was marketing manager at Fidelity Worldwide Investment. UBS head of global asset management in Australia and New Zealand Bryce Doherty said: "UBS Global Asset Management ...