Taiwan’s alignment with international sustainability norms make it attractive debt capital raising venue

Citi China has established clearing and settlement services for the new Beijing Stock Exchange to support trading under the qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII) programme.

Singapore's United Overseas Bank (UOB) has agreed to acquire Citigroup’s consumer banking businesses in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Initiative aims to provide investors with pricing benchmark, risk management tool

China’s central bank has issued a development plan for the fintech sector for 2022 to 2025, providing guidance, targets, key tasks, and support for the financial industry’s digital transformation.

Experiments that depart from conventional economic policy can be costly. But this does not mean that there are universal rules in economics or that the prevailing view among mainstream economists should determine what policymakers do

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) signs a new strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) to further enhance market connectivity and facilitate the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TPBank) has secured a US$25 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to expand access to funding for women-owned-and-led small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam. The project is also co-financed with another US$25 million by DEG, the German government’s investment corporation.

Digital finance took centre stage at Hong Kong’s annual Asian Financial Forum as speakers discussed how economies and companies are using technology to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances around the Covid-19 pandemic.

The rigid stances of Modern Monetary Theory’s devotees and detractors have not lent themselves to productive discussion. This is a serious loss for policymakers, because MMT includes both problematic propositions and perfectly reasonable – even highly useful – ones

Baltic Exchange and TradeFlow Capital Management complete a pilot escrow transaction involving a shipment of agricultural commodities from India to China.

The Asia G3 bond market started strongly in 2022 with three mega deals printed in the first week of January. According to Refinitiv, the total volume of Asia G3 bond market in 2021, outside of Japan and Australasia, amounted to US$372.95 billion, or just a shade under the record amount of US$374.75 billion in 2020.