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ANZ sells off retail Vietnam business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... latter focuses on its institutional business in Vietnam. It follows ANZ selling its branch networks in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia late last year. ANZ's retail business in Vietnam currently services 125,000 customers representing ...

Global bank tests customer service 'bot'

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... meaningful ways." Separately, the latest study by UN-based not-for-profit organisation Better Than Cash Alliance revealed in China, social media network WeChat and third-party online payment platform Alipay, generated US$2.9 trillion in digital social ...

Investment group takes majority stake in global advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... Capital and global investment manager KKR. Focus, which has more than 45 partner firms and affiliates in the US, UK, Canada, China and now Australia, made 20 acquisitions in 2016 and announced six so far this year. According to founder and chief executive ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... minister Li Keqiang's 6.5% growth target for this year is tracking well (surprise, surprise) - with a buffer to boot - as China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of 2017. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.9% in the year to the March quarter ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... presidential elections in November last year.) This is a remarkably surprising response especially given that the governments of China, Russia and South Korea and Japan are on high alert. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reports that China and Russia had "dispatched ...

Singapore fintech shutters Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... specialises in crowdfunding investment services for small-to-medium enterprises and property assets. It has offices in Singapore, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and until recently, Australia. The decision to close CoAssets' crowdfunding and funds management ...

Financial Standard wins prestigious award

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... from AFR reporters Michael Smith, Angus Grigg and Lisa Murray for their series on Crown Resorts staff being detained in China. The trio submitted in the General Business category. Burke's entry included the articles 'Searching for retirement income solutions' ...

China manufacturing expansion gains and slows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
China's official manufacturing PMI measure showed the index improving for the second straight month to 51.8 in March and the eight consecutive month that the index had been above the 50 expansion/contraction line. This is better than market expectations ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... could accelerate more strongly if policy stimulus turns out to be larger than currently projected in the United States or China". Trump's failure to have Obamacare repealed has instilled doubts over the passage of his other policies and threatens the ...

TCorp appoints ex-Willis Towers Watson executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... effective immediately. Mao originally joined the firm's Shanghai-based business in 2006 as head of investment services, China, before relocating to Sydney in August 2015 to co-lead the current team. He has also previously been an assistant vice president ...