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In a recent seminar in Ho Chi Minh City, Deborah Wiltshire, Sales Director at The Gurner Group, revealed exciting insights into foreign investment trends in Australia’s booming real estate market. According to data from Australia’s Foreign Investment Review…
Sacombank, a major creditor of Bamboo Airways, is seeking approval from economic regulators to invest in the local carrier.
Content creation is important in the present time, especially when digital marketing is booming across the globe. With the world going online, pushing out relevant content for the consumers is extremely important for a business. With the help of content, it…
Among numerous efforts that the Singaporean government has made to drive up economic growth in the country, one of the initiatives that’s gotten the most traction is the Global Investor Programme (GIP). The GIP, an official division of Singapore’s Economic…
After flailing through the 2000s as a consumer electronics giant and missing out on the mobile boom, Panasonic found itself a new life with electric cars taking off when Elon Musk and Tesla made the bold and audacious bet on the industry in the mid-2000s.…
Love, Bonito today announced the close of its Series C funding round, raising a total of US$50Million. The round was led by Primavera Capital Group, a global investment firm whose previous investments include Alibaba, ByteDance, Yum China and Mead Johnson…
The Swiss bank appoints one of its investment bankers to a key sustainability role. Zurich-based UBS is naming Laurent Bouvier to front a new team of investment bankers focused on environmental, social, and governance responsibility, according to a memo seen…
Speaking at the opening address of the ATxSummit, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies, Mr Heng Swee Keat announced that Singapore will be stepping up investments to unlock the full potential of the digital…
Alibaba co-founders Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai are reportedly pledging their shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant in exchange for significant loans from global banks. The two tech billionaires have pledged their shares to banks including UBS, Credit Suisse,…
Grab has bought Singapore-based robo-advisory start-up Bento Invest which will be rebranded as GrabInvest, offering wealth management solutions to drivers, merchant partners and consumers through the Grab app. Grab’s move adds another business vertical under…
The investment bank of UBS didn’t deliver as much as the bank had hoped it would in 2019. The heads of the unit have reacted to the underperformance by setting new hiring targets. UBS wants to sign experienced staff to boost its investment bank in the U.S.,…
The slowdown in the Indian auto market has also dented long term plans of automakers in India. Hyundai which was gearing up to set up a new plant in India has now postponed its plans by two or three years. Hyundai Motor India Managing Director (MD) & CEO,…
Central Group subsidiary Central Retail Corporation, aims to raise up to THB81.1 billion (US$2.7 billion) in an initial public offering (IPO), which will be Thailand’s largest yet. Central Retail’s IPO price will range between THB40 to 48 per share. The…
Vietnam’s fintech firms secured $410 million, or 36 percent of the global capital pouring into Southeast Asia between January and September, behind Singapore. The country’s share of regional venture capital funding devoted to fintech soared from just 0.4…
Grab is looking to gain pole position in Indonesia’s budding digital payment market, reportedly exploring a merger between two major players – a local entity it owns and another one backed by China’s Ant Financial. A merger between Grab-backed ONO and…
UBS is going to revamp its investment banking unit along the lines of a wealth management business. The goal is to make the unit leaner and more global. Piero Novelli and Rob Karofsky are about to unveil their plans for a revamp of the investment banking…
