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Although 2023 promises to be a more positive year than 2022, investors who are still worried about market uncertainty in the medium to long term are seeking balanced funds.
8 Feb 2023
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Global private assets double, focus on avoiding double taxation of dividends, optimizing returns
8 Feb 2023
Editor's choice
For sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs), 2022 was an exceptionally painful year as it marked the first time that their assets under management (AUM) shrank. Some leading SWFs even recorded double-digit negative returns.
7 Feb 2023
Editor's choice
Insurer MSIG Singapore has partnered with technology solutions provider Fermion to deploy artificial intelligence in fighting motor insurance fraud.
8 Feb 2023
Editor's choice
As the death toll from the series of earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday (February 6) continues to rise, a preliminary estimate of the economic loss from the devastating event is more than US$1 billion in Turkey alone.
8 Feb 2023
Editor's choice
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing another US$100 million in Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) of Vietnam that will enable the bank to give more lower and middle-income families in the country access to housing loans.
8 Feb 2023
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Japanese energy and power generation company JERA has announced the final installation of all 47 wind turbine generators at the Formosa 2 offshore wind project.
8 Feb 2023
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Singaporean state-run investment company Temasek has invested in Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage and technology firm that develops batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and grid-level energy storage.
7 Feb 2023
Editor's choice
Carlyle has appointed Harvey Schwartz as chief executive officer and a member of the board, effective February 15. Bill Conway will step down as interim CEO, maintaining his role as co-chairman of the board.
7 Feb 2023
Editor's choice
ESG Forum
The supportive environment in 2021 that enabled issuers and borrowers to gain easier access to equity and debt capital markets to raise funds has completely disappeared last year. That’s how a senior banker described 2022 as deal volumes across G3 bonds and initial public offerings in Asia, outside of Japan and Australasia, plunged against a backdrop of rising interest rates, higher inflation, volatile commodity prices and elevated geopolitical tensions.
7 Feb 2023
Operating in Taiwan’s highly competitive market, Magi Chen, president and chief executive officer of E.Sun Financial Holdings has steered her organization through a number of challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic to ongoing geopolitical tensions. Under her watch, the bank delivered a solid financial performance in 2021, including a record-high net profit of NT$20.6 billion (US$690 million) and the highest return on equity compared to local peers.
6 Feb 2023
Those who gathered in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting this year were not wrong to fear that globalization is in retreat for the first time since 1945. Though the economic case for free trade and deepening integration remains sound, it has always been missing a critical element
3 Feb 2023
The real problem confronting European manufacturing is not the threat of factory closures. It is that, compared with the United States and China, Europe has fallen far behind in the race to accumulate, and benefit from, the cloud capital that represents the future of profit in industries like electric cars and green energy
2 Feb 2023
The frontier Mekong economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam face varying degrees of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks with moderately to very highly negative impacts on their current sovereign ratings, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
1 Feb 2023
Increasing shareholder activism is expected to play a crucial role in sustainable investing in 2023 as investors and asset managers become more resolute in pushing corporate and financial institutions to achieve sustainability targets, according to Federica Calvetti, head of ESG and strategic activism at Eurizon, the asset management unit of Italy’s largest financial group Intessa Sanpaolo.
30 Jan 2023
Global investment in the low-carbon energy transition totalled US$1.1 trillion in 2022 – a new record and a huge acceleration from the year before – as the energy crisis and policy action drove faster deployment of clean energy technologies, according to a new report. In another first, investment in low-carbon technologies appears to have reached parity with capital deployed in support of fossil fuel supply, research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF) says in its Energy Transition Investment Trends report.
27 Jan 2023
Global financial technology firm Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure and data analytics comparison tool. Called ESG Analyser, the new web-based ESG disclosure and data analytics benchmarking tool promises to deliver timely, high-quality, cost-effective, transparent data and insights.
27 Jan 2023
Six decades after the green revolution began, the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence may usher in another agricultural transformation. By enabling farmers to grow more while using fewer resources and generating less waste, these tools could make food more sustainable, accessible and cheaper to produce
26 Jan 2023
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Insurer MSIG Singapore has partnered with technology solutions provider Fermion to deploy artificial intelligence in fighting motor insurance fraud.
8 Feb 2023
Brunei’s Baiduri Bank has engaged the services of Singapore-headquartered fintech firm finbots.ai to modernize its credit risk management using artificial intelligence.
8 Feb 2023
Artificial intelligence is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience, ultimately disappointing most investors. Yet economic history shows that it does not have to be this way
8 Feb 2023
Complex to house South Korea’s first quantum computing R&D hub as demand for service increase
7 Feb 2023
The emergence of powerful new tools like ChatGPT represents a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence while highlighting the need for regulatory intervention. To protect the public interest, policymakers must prevent this nascent market from becoming dominated by a handful of giant private companies
6 Feb 2023
SDAX, a private markets investment and trading platform based in Singapore, has taken to tokenization to attract more investors and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The firm will list CR Global UK Social Housing Fund II, a social housing fund managed by Singapore-registered FXHB Asset Management. The fund will invest in real estate to meet social housing needs in the United Kingdom.
6 Feb 2023
The Philippines’ central bank has started public consultations on a pilot project to explore the use of digital technologies in the delivery of financial products and services, and the sharing of customer data. In a statement, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor Felipe Medalla asked interested parties to participate in the consultation on the Philippine Open Finance Pilot project.
3 Feb 2023
The real problem confronting European manufacturing is not the threat of factory closures. It is that, compared with the United States and China, Europe has fallen far behind in the race to accumulate, and benefit from, the cloud capital that represents the future of profit in industries like electric cars and green energy
2 Feb 2023
Zodia Custody, a London-based crypto asset servicing provider for institutional investors, has established a joint venture with SBI Digital Asset Holdings (SBI DAH) in Japan. The joint venture, with SBI DAH holding a 51% interest and Zodia Custody owning the remaining 49% stake, will act as a crypto assets custodian targeting institutional clients.
2 Feb 2023
Instill AI, a London-based start-up that provides tools to derive insights or generate meaningful content from unstructured data, has raised US$3.6 million in a seed round.
2 Feb 2023
Central bank seeks public views, hopes CBDC will enhance push to achieve developed-country status
1 Feb 2023
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Award CeremonyCountry Awards for Sustainable FinanceFeb 2023
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Award CeremonyESG Corporate AwardsFeb 2023
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Award CeremonySustainable Capital Markets AwardsMar 2023
Treasury & Capital Markets
As the death toll from the series of earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday (February 6) continues to rise, a preliminary estimate of the economic loss from the devastating event is more than US$1 billion in Turkey alone.
8 Feb 2023
Insurer MSIG Singapore has partnered with technology solutions provider Fermion to deploy artificial intelligence in fighting motor insurance fraud.
8 Feb 2023
Brunei’s Baiduri Bank has engaged the services of Singapore-headquartered fintech firm finbots.ai to modernize its credit risk management using artificial intelligence.
8 Feb 2023
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing another US$100 million in Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) of Vietnam that will enable the bank to give more lower and middle-income families in the country access to housing loans.
8 Feb 2023
J.P. Morgan collaboration alternative to wire transfers results in cheaper, faster transactions
7 Feb 2023
European securitization volumes have fallen dramatically in recent years and the market has become a sideshow. Thoughts about how to give it back its mojo, meanwhile, are anything but aligned. But is the narrative starting to shift in favour of regulatory liberalization?
7 Feb 2023
Sustainable finance-related deals emerged as a significant driver of issuers’ and investors’ behaviour. This was evident in several fund raisings that defined the best issuers The Asset board of editors selected for The Asset Triple A Sustainable Capital Markets Awards 2022.
7 Feb 2023
The supportive environment in 2021 that enabled issuers and borrowers to gain easier access to equity and debt capital markets to raise funds has completely disappeared last year. That’s how a senior banker described 2022 as deal volumes across G3 bonds and initial public offerings in Asia, outside of Japan and Australasia, plunged against a backdrop of rising interest rates, higher inflation, volatile commodity prices and elevated geopolitical tensions.
7 Feb 2023
Operating in Taiwan’s highly competitive market, Magi Chen, president and chief executive officer of E.Sun Financial Holdings has steered her organization through a number of challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic to ongoing geopolitical tensions. Under her watch, the bank delivered a solid financial performance in 2021, including a record-high net profit of NT$20.6 billion (US$690 million) and the highest return on equity compared to local peers.
6 Feb 2023
The Philippines’ central bank has started public consultations on a pilot project to explore the use of digital technologies in the delivery of financial products and services, and the sharing of customer data. In a statement, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor Felipe Medalla asked interested parties to participate in the consultation on the Philippine Open Finance Pilot project.
3 Feb 2023
Wealth
Although 2023 promises to be a more positive year than 2022, investors who are still worried about market uncertainty in the medium to long term are seeking balanced funds.
8 Feb 2023
Notwithstanding prevailing headwinds in the market, a robust appetite for mergers and acquisitions will fuel an uptick in deal-making activity in certain sectors this year.
8 Feb 2023
For sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and public pension funds (PPFs), 2022 was an exceptionally painful year as it marked the first time that their assets under management (AUM) shrank. Some leading SWFs even recorded double-digit negative returns.
7 Feb 2023
Carlyle has appointed Harvey Schwartz as chief executive officer and a member of the board, effective February 15. Bill Conway will step down as interim CEO, maintaining his role as co-chairman of the board.
7 Feb 2023
Morgan Stanley is broadening its footprint in China after becoming the latest foreign financial institution to obtain regulatory approval to take full control of its mutual funds joint venture in the country. Morgan Stanley Investment Management has received the green light from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to increase its stake in Morgan Stanley Huaxin Funds from 49% to 100%. The equity step-up is subject to business registration and other procedures required by Chinese regulators.
6 Feb 2023
Standard Chartered has appointed Peter Tung as regional head, private banking, Greater China and North Asia (GCNA).
3 Feb 2023
Zodia Custody, a London-based crypto asset servicing provider for institutional investors, has established a joint venture with SBI Digital Asset Holdings (SBI DAH) in Japan. The joint venture, with SBI DAH holding a 51% interest and Zodia Custody owning the remaining 49% stake, will act as a crypto assets custodian targeting institutional clients.
2 Feb 2023
Asian mutual funds face brighter prospects this year after a challenging 2022. As inflation cools and central banks are likely to slow the pace of rate hikes, stability is expected to return to interest rates, Cerulli Associates says.
2 Feb 2023
Asia Connect
UniCredit and ICBC have arranged a €104 million (US$111 million) green financing for a fund acquiring and developing a portfolio of six logistics assets in Italy.
8 Feb 2023
Switzerland-based infrastructure investment manager SUSI Partners has launched a renewable energy platform to develop large-scale renewable assets across Southeast Asia.
8 Feb 2023
The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the BP-led Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas project has set sail for its operation location off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal.
8 Feb 2023
Japanese energy and power generation company JERA has announced the final installation of all 47 wind turbine generators at the Formosa 2 offshore wind project.
8 Feb 2023
VFlowTech, a Singapore-based provider of vanadium-based redox flow batteries, has raised US$10 million in a Series A funding round.
7 Feb 2023
Singaporean state-run investment company Temasek has invested in Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage and technology firm that develops batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and grid-level energy storage.
7 Feb 2023
Southeast Asia Clean Energy Facility (SEACEF), a Singapore-based fund managed by Clime Capital Management, has committed development funding to solar developer Skye Renewables Holdings.
6 Feb 2023
NextDecade Corp, the developer of the Rio Grande LNG export project on the Brownsville Ship Channel in Texas, has signed a 15-year sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Japanese trading house Itochu Corp.
1 Feb 2023
Globeleq, an Africa-focused power company, has completed a 1.2 billion rand (US$71 million) senior debt restructuring facility for a 31-megawatt solar power plant in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.
1 Feb 2023
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Nhava Sheva Freeport Terminal Private Limited (NSFTPL) have signed a US$131 million loan to upgrade the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal in Navi Mumbai Maharashtra.
1 Feb 2023
Export-Import Bank of Korea and Riyad Bank are providing US$435 million in debt finance for a 320-megawatt cogeneration plant in Saudi Arabia. The project developer is Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco). Last September, South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility was awarded a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the project.
1 Feb 2023
On The Move
Barbara Voskamp has extensive experience with cross-border investment structuring
7 Feb 2023
Carlyle has appointed Harvey Schwartz as chief executive officer and a member of the board, effective February 15. Bill Conway will step down as interim CEO, maintaining his role as co-chairman of the board.
7 Feb 2023
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Standard Chartered has appointed Peter Tung as regional head, private banking, Greater China and North Asia (GCNA).
3 Feb 2023
DLA Piper has appointed Peter Armstrong as a partner in its corporate practice. Based in Tokyo, Armstrong joins the law firm from Nishimura & Asahi where he was a corporate partner, advising both Japanese and global entities on a wide range of complex cross-border transactions and projects
2 Feb 2023
Hong Kong virtual lender ZA Bank has appointed Ronald Iu as chief executive officer and executive director, with immediate effect.
1 Feb 2023
Tina Tong has 20 years of asset management experience, acute understanding of local clients
1 Feb 2023
Johanes Oeni has 31 years of wealth management experience
31 Jan 2023
Ian Hutchinson has over 15 years’ experience in fintech, M&A and insurance
31 Jan 2023
Vida Tandean brings long-standing expertise in private equity real estate investing in Asia
30 Jan 2023
BNP Paribas Asset Management has appointed Daniel Choong as chief executive officer for Malaysia, subject to regulatory approval. He succeeds Angelia Chin-Sharpe, who relocated to Singapore last August following her appointment as the firm’s Singapore CEO.
27 Jan 2023
Robert Crossley has decades of investment and banking experience across Europe and Asia
20 Jan 2023
