Category: FinanceAsia
Asia a growing target for APTs
Asia is increasingly a target of advanced persistent threats (APTs) as it rises in global prominence with the presence of multinationals and big local brands planting offices [...]
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Prescriptive cybersecurity frameworks ‘too early’ for Asia
A prescriptive framework whereby regulators issue security best practices for companies to follow, may not work in Asia-Pacific as most countries in the region are still in [...]
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Singapore to ‘overtake Switzerland as banking centre by 2020′
Singapore is the world’s fastest growing wealth centre and is predicted to overtake Switzerland to become the largest offshore private banking market by 2020, according to [...]
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Ballooning gas exports to leave Australian wind winner
Australia’s $65 billion of projects to export liquefied natural gas from the east coast are set to push up domestic prices, opening the way for record investment at home in [...]
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Carnival cruise group expanding in Asia
Carnival, the world’s largest cruise group, unveiled its Asian expansion plans on Tuesday, predicting the regional market for leisure voyages will grow dramatically [...]
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BRICS without mortar as confidence crumbles
(Commentary) Last month, China’s new president, Xi Jinping, chose Moscow for his first foreign visit. He and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a number of [...]
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Asia Roundup: Mostly up on China CPI data
Asian markets mostly rose yesterday,Tuesday April 09 2013 boosted by positive inflation data from China, but Tokyo’s winning streak ended on profit-taking as the yen [...]
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Australia business confidence up even as activity weakens -survey
Australian businesses reported the weakest activity levels in four years in March as sales and employment slipped, yet the same survey showed firms grew more optimistic on [...]
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Merger loans surge in Asia as bank yield-race encourages buyouts
Acquisition lending in Asia tripled in the first quarter as banks chased higher-yielding assets to offset a slump in other syndicated financing, prompting borrowing costs to [...]
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Growth to hold up-Asean finance chiefs
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) expects growth to hold up this year even as challenges of a generally weak global economy and capital flows persist, the [...]
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Japan’s yield hunters seek European debt
Increased expectations of a jump in Japanese investment in Europe’s bond markets following the Bank of Japan’s drastic action to ease monetary policy helped drive [...]
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Singapore Exchange delays start of derivatives market trading
Singapore Exchange has delayed the start of trading on its derivatives market due to technical problems, the bourse said on Tuesday. “We have identified the cause of [...]
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China inflation eases, reducing pressure for tighter credit
China’s inflation eased more than forecast from a 10-month high as food-price gains ebbed, reducing pressure on policy makers to tighten credit as the world’s [...]
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China failed mining deals top $45b on Hanlong bungle
Sichuan Hanlong Group’s botched $1.2 billion bid for Australia’s Sundance Resources Ltd (SDL) brings the value of China’s recent failed mining deals to $45 [...]
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Qantas targets HK approval for budget airline by year end
Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN) expects to get approvals to start a budget carrier out of Hong Kong by the end of the year as Australia’s biggest airline seeks to tap travel [...]
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