It is beefing up relationship manager teams in markets such as India, China onshore, Malaysia and Taiwan. The bank's new strategy expands on ambitions unveiled in October to trim its retail banking business in some markets in order to fund a $1.5 billion investment i...
Through decade-long development, Ant Financial empowers its strategic partners in emerging markets, including India, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia, to provide inclusive financial services, such as e-wallet solutions for local populations. After establishing a foothold in Asian...
Rajagopal as interim head of the global equity capital markets (ECM) business of Standard Chartered, Chen Fan Fai as chief investment officer of Eastspring Investments for Malaysia, and Angus Woolhouse as global head of distribution at Baring Asset Management....
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“The strong demand we’ve seen for the funds across our markets, especially from Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia, is a vote of confidence from our clients,” comments Samir Subberwal, global head, wealth solutions, deposits and mortgages, and chief client officer. “Despite rate cut...
In Indonesia, Atome Financial operates Asia’s largest buy-now-pay-later platform, Atome, in addition to the Kredit Pintar platform. Standard Chartered plans to provide US$500 million of financing over 10 years through Atome Financial in several Asian markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapor...
Biggest running event in Malaysia Organised by Dirigo Events, the KLSCM is the biggest running event in Malaysia and it is an event that I have supported and looked forward to every year since 2017. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 is thesecond yearthat the event has gone fully virtual...
with over 220,000 Bangladeshi workers estimated to be working there in2017. The blockchain solution allows these Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia to instantly send wage remittances through Valyou, to bKash wallet users at home. Standard Chartered will act as the settlement bank and regulatory approv...
Local currencies settlement for trade One currentBRICSgoal is to increase the use of local currencies for trade. There has been some discussion about aBRICS Bridgedigital currency platform to support trade with local currencies. Speaking to Chinese news outletGuancha, Malaysia’s Prime Minister ...
“Our first half of 2021 was one of recovery, albeit an uneven one,” Winters added. “Across the major markets of our footprint . . . the timeline to full economic recovery and social opening will be longer as country vaccination programmes vary, leading to lower confidence in so...