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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... picked up by 0.9% (year-on-year) in February - the strongest since December 2011 - from 0.6% in the year to January. Hong Kong trade balance Hong Kong's trade deficit narrowed by 7.6% to HK$33.1 billion in February compared with the same month last year. ...

IMF Bentham announces $30m bond issue

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... in Australia, now offering its services in overseas jurisdictions including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Its principal activities are the investigation, funding and management of litigation ...

Berkshire-owned Gen Re to close Melbourne office

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... operations - including the Melbourne office, as well as Charlotte, Seattle and St. Paul in the US, Riga in Latvia and Hong Kong - will be consolidated into larger teams elsewhere. In the Melbourne office's case, operations will be merged with the Sydney ...

Fullerton Fund Management appoints head of multi-asset strategies

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... where he held the position of chief investment officer. Prior to this he held senior positions at Societe General in Hong Kong and J.P. Morgan in Singapore and New York. In his role, Gupta will be responsible for enhancing and driving Fullerton's multi-asset ...

T+2 settlement arrives on Monday

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... corporate bonds and commonwealth inflation bonds. T+2 settlement already operates in major markets including Europe and Hong Kong. The United States and Canada have proposed moving to T+2 in September 2017.

BNP Paribas Securities Services wins mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... Under the mandate, BNP Paribas will provide trade management, collateral management and trade repository reporting in Hong Kong and Singapore. "We have been impressed with the expertise and regulatory knowledge demonstrated by BNP Paribas Securities ...

Australia aims to be APAC fintech leader

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's recent trip to Hong Kong and Shanghai top-dressed the government's innovation commitment and complemented calls by financial services executives for Australia's fintech industry to immediately capitalise in a "booming" ...

Funds under management to hit $8tr by 2035: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... superannuation savings, which accounts for 78% of the projected $8 trillion honeypot. By contrast, the financial centres of Hong Kong and Singapore, with approximately $2.8 trillion and $2.2 trillion FUM respectively, only source a lower 29% and 19% ...

FSC proposes Budget fixes to boost fin services exports

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... which is currently the only option available to them." "Investors are flocking to other jurisdictions such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Luxembourg which have broader collective investment vehicle structures which are simple, effective and workable," he ...

ANZ rolls out new executive team

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... executives. Reporting to Whelan will be Farhan Faruqui, the new group executive international. Faruqui will be based in Hong Kong and will have responsibility for ANZ's institutional business in Asia, Europe and America. He will also join ANZ's executive ...