(9 March 2016 – Singapore) HSBC winning approval to commence a credit-card business in China's US$1 trillion (A$1.35 billion) market provides the bank’s CEO, Stuart Gulliver an addition […]
(8 March 2016 – Australia) Financial payments company Indue is considering a move to transition into a full bank, or go public according to the Sydney Morning Herald. […]
(15 February 2016 – Asia) Indonesia’s central bank, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) will sign an agreement soon with its Malaysian counterpart, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), to ease […]
(11 February 2016 – Philippines) A moratorium, which lasted 17 years, on the granting of licenses to establish new local banks will be gradually removed, with all restrictions […]
(2 February 2016 – Asia/Europe) Bahrain based Al Baraka Islamic Bank is planning to open a sharia-compliant bank in France by 2017 as it seeks to expand into […]
(12 January 2016 – China) UBS Group plans to double its workforce in China over five years, adding around 600 people according to the investment bank’s CEO Sergio […]
(14 December 2015 – Australia) Business banking will undergo a “changing of the guard” in 2016 according to industry analysts East & Partners (E&P) proprietary demand-side research. Sustaining […]
(7 December 2015 – Australia) Australia & New Zealand Banking Group's (ANZ) chairman has endorsed the company’s Asia-focused strategy set eight years ago by outgoing chief executive Mike […]
(7 December 2015 – Indonesia) Indonesia’s central bank has given its permission for domestic multi-finance companies to open lending to new sectors, to help kick-start the country’s flagging […]
(25 November 2015 – United Kingdom) Spanish bank BBVA has invested £45 million (A$94 million) into the UK's Atom Bank, in return for a 29.5 percent stake and making […]
