INDUSTRY veteran Ranjit Khanna will join Bank of Singapore as its global market head of Middle East and chief executive of its Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) branch, the bank announced on Wednesday (Mar 29).
THE current banking crisis proves that – even after reforms brought on by the Great Depression and the global financial crisis – the financial system has few defences against periodic bouts of primal fear.
THE Bank of England said global investors are reining in their appetite for risk sharply due to turmoil in the financial system, and that more than half of respondents to a survey early this year are braced for a “high-impact” event.
UBS Group is bringing back Sergio Ermotti as chief executive officer to oversee the complicated acquisition of Credit Suisse Group, replacing Ralph Hamers after a tenure that lasted just over two years.
THE latest Singapore Savings Bond (SSBs) allotted on Wednesday (Mar 29) experienced a rise in applications and exceeded the amount on offer, after months of falling demand due to declining yields.
DAI-ICHI Life Holdings, one of Japan’s largest institutional investors, is shifting more money to domestic bonds from Treasury and other foreign securities, after aggressive interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve made it costly to hedge against currency risks.
BARCLAYS (CEO) chief executive officer CS Venkatakrishnan said the shift to a low-carbon economy is one of today’s “defining issues”.
JEFFERIES Financial Group’s profit plunged in its fiscal first quarter, as a bump in equities and fixed-income trading failed to offset a slump in investment banking.
DBS digibank and PayLah services appear to be down on Wednesday (Mar 29) morning.
THE outage of DBS digibank and PayLah services from mid-morning on Wednesday (Mar 29) was fixed as at 5.45 pm, the bank said in a statement at 7.30 pm.
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