Activists and human rights groups are calling for parliament to pass a bill to address the many incidents of enforced disappearance in the Kingdom
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ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, starts a two-day meeting in Paris on Thursday (Oct 20), and is expected to take up the removal of Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”. In a meeting in June, the FATFContinue Reading
The proportion of non-performing mortgages among financial institution loans has remained low at 0.3 per cent.Continue Reading
Commercial banks have been urged by the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) to ensure that a new requirement that people depositing at cash deposit machines (CDMs) must verify their identity when making transactions will not end up out of pocket.Continue Reading
Beijing is bidding to highlight its European Union partnership following news that the bloc’s foreign service is preparing to call on member states to diversify their supply chains from China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on October 17 that the EU should view Sino-EU cooperation objectively, expand common interests and contribute to the stability […]Continue Reading
Aims to democratise access to digital payment, build financial literacy
Funds for towards product development, increasing user adoption Pocket, an Indonesia-based startup that provides a holistic financial health platform for families, announced the completion of an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding in a round led by East Ventures. â
In a statement, the fintech…Continue Reading
Chinese real estate developers are desperate to recover from the prolonged lockdowns driven by China’s zero-Covid policy. But the slowdown in home sales is also related to the collapse of household confidence in the country’s real estate market. The mortgage boycott in China is a direct consequence of the bankruptcies of an increasing number of developers. […]Continue Reading
While Joe Biden is trying to calm concerns about recession and Christine Lagarde is scaring markets with quantitative easing (QE), the central banks of South Korea and Japan are pleasing investors in their own way. Starting with the “Land of the Rising Sun,” despite Japan’s 2.84 trillion yen (US$19.7 billion) intervention in the foreign-exchange market in the […]Continue Reading
Closely-watched growth data for the world’s second largest economy was due to be released on Tuesday.Continue Reading
Core inflation was initially supposed to have peaked around the mid of this year and stabilised in the second half. This timeline has now been pushed into 2023, notes OCBC’s Selena Ling.Continue Reading