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Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... markets, Vester said it was important to look at countries "starting from a low economic base." He continued: "Think India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico: these are countries where the consumption patterns you and I take for granted are ...

ASIC signs fintech agreement with Indonesia

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
ASIC and Indonesia's Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) have entered a co-operation agreement to promote innovation in financial services in the regulators' respective markets. The agreement, signed on Friday in Melbourne, establishes a framework for co-operation ...

ANZ sells off retail Vietnam business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... 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 $320 million in lending ...

Singapore fintech shutters Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... 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 businesses in Australia ...

ANZ appoints sustainable head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... finance capability." Tapley is a board member of the Carbon Market Institute, advisory panel member for the Australia-Indonesia Centre's Urban Water Cluster research project and alumni of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. Tapley is ...

Australia lags in infrastructure returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... markets will increase their dominance for high performing and sustainable built assets - India will overtake the US, Indonesia will leapfrog Mexico and Japan, and Brazil will edge ahead of Germany," Robbins said. "Mature economies will have to do more ...

ANZ to sell Asian retail, wealth businesses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... has entered an agreement with DBS Bank to acquire ANZ's branch network across Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. The transaction includes $11 billion in gross lending assets, $7 billion in credit risk weighted assets and $17 billion in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... BOE's recent forward guidance that it could cut interest rates further, would put more upward pressure on inflation. Indonesia trade balance Indonesia recorded a trade surplus of US$1.21 billion in September, the highest since July last year and compares ...

Global investment landscape needs rethink

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... products in emerging markets. "Unilever's Pureit water purifier was developed in India before being sold in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Nigeria. Some companies in emerging markets, such as Tencent, are becoming big players on the global stage," Budden ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... 18 months - and a small 0.2% annual rate of decline in imports in July, a sharp improvement from June's 10.0% drop. Indonesia consumer confidence Bank Indonesia's consumer confidence index rose to a reading of 114.2 in July - the highest level since ...