China still requires people arriving from overseas to spend time in hotel quarantine and home isolation, and the number of international flights has yet to return to normal, so those able to travel abroad remain a minority. But despite the hurdles, some exporters found the costs of being trapped inContinue Reading
Scott Steele takes on a newly created role serving Asian and European clients, from London.Continue Reading
India’ s domestically-driven economy and Indonesia’ h commodity-led exports should provide some strength despite a more difficult operating environment characterised by higher global inflation, rising rates of interest and liquidity tightening. Elaine Koh, senior director for Asia-Pacific non-bank financial institutions from Fitch Ratings talks about the prospects meant for India and Indonesia’ s finance and leasing sector in the current economic environment.Continue Reading
Singapore-based conglomerate RGE has won two awards in the Corporate Treasurer Honours 2022 for using Sustainability Linked Financial loans (SLLs) to crystalise the group’ s i9000 ESG-related targets.Continue Reading
The finance offers exposure to Southeast Asia-headquartered start-ups via the digital exchange, with commitments starting from $20, 000.Continue Reading
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The Bank of Japan shook world markets on Tuesday in a monetary move that at the least reminded everyone the entity still exists. It’s been a long, long while since Governor Haruhiko Kuroda logged into global markets. Seeing that the green light next to his avatar had switched on was enough to send the yen […]Continue Reading
A Gambia parliamentary panel says the Native indian firm linked to cough syrups deaths ought to be prosecuted.Continue Reading
As China reopens the world’s No 2 economy, the biggest winner could be a beleaguered private sector that’s had a rough few years under President Xi Jinping. Since 2019, the Chinese leader has been carrying out an assertive crackdown on financial risk in the property market. In 2020, the Communist Party stomped on internet platform companies to remind tech founders who’s boss. And, of course, Xi’s “zero-Covid” lockdowns have driven economic growth to 30-year lows, causing many foreign investors to pivot elsewhere. Now, Xi’s team suggests a variety of business-friendly policies will take the lead in efforts to boost both gross domestic product (GDP) and investor confidence. This renewed focus on supporting the private sector emerged from a two-day Central Economic Work Conference that concluded on December 16.
On November 1, the deputy director of Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation played down remarks made on October 30 by an agency official who warned of Western weapons bound for Ukraine being smuggled into Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. Nonetheless, the affair generated significant attention and reflected previous concerns expressed by European authorities over Ukraine’s vulnerability to organized […]Continue Reading