
Keppel to Mobilize up to $1 Billion Through Vietnam Financial Center
The Singapore asset manager’s pledge accounts for more than a third of the $2.7 billion targeted by the hub’s first ten members.
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The Singapore asset manager’s pledge accounts for more than a third of the $2.7 billion targeted by the hub’s first ten members.

The offerings provide rare access for offshore investors as Vietnam maintains a 30 per cent cap on foreign ownership.

Activists rally at the Israeli embassy in Bangkok over alleged legal violations and ownership loopholes as authorities weigh a wider corporate crackdown.

Taiwan and India lead the regional rebound as tech earnings jump 88 per cent, while Southeast Asian markets post mixed foreign flows.

Most Vietnamese banks fall short of international capital adequacy norms and have to focus on attracting foreign capital this year, Moody’s has said. The credit rating agency said in a release Monday that “the underdevelopment of the domestic capital markets”…

Foreign direct investment disbursement in Vietnam reached a record $19.1 billion in 2018, a year-on-year increase of 9.1 percent. However, FDI pledges for new projects, capital supplements and stake acquisitions were down 1.2 percent from a year earlier to…
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