Nomura Holdings Inc. is targeting a 20% revenue increase for its global markets unit over the coming years, moving past setbacks like the...

GX Bank Berhad (GXBank), backed by Grab, alongside Zurich General and Life Insurance Malaysia, has announced a decade-long exclusive...

AEON Bank, Malaysia’s inaugural Islamic digital bank, has partnered with Visa to revolutionise digital payments and enhance cashless...

Microsoft has announced a plan to train 2.5 million people in Southeast Asia in AI skills by 2025, partnering with governments,...

Woori Financial Group has joined the race to buy Lotte Insurance, South Korea's seventh-largest non-life insurer, aiming to boost its...

Wellington Management, a top independent asset manager, today announced an exclusive partnership with Standard Chartered Private Bank to...

Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati discussed strengthening Indonesia’s role within the Asian Infrastructure Investment...

The global hedge fund industry ended the first quarter with a record USD4.3tr in assets, data provider HFR said on Monday. The industry...

Maybank Philippines, along with another foreign entity, plans to introduce Islamic banking operations in the country, according to the...

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) is in preliminary talks to purchase a 15% stake worth about USD1.1bn in Indonesia’s leading Islamic lender,...

Taiwan’s president-elect Lai Ching-te announced the appointment of Cho Jung-tai, a former chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party...

Ant Group, in collaboration with 11 Alipay+ overseas payment partners and major international card organisations, launched a programme in...

In 2023, Southeast Asia experienced nearly 43 million cybersecurity threats targeting businesses, as reported by Kaspersky. Vietnam faced...

Shinhan Bank, a commercial lender in South Korea, is vying for a licence to become the country’s fourth internet-only bank, joining...

The 2023 Hong Kong Online Investing Report by Investment Trends shows a decline in active online investors from 900,000 to 840,000, but...

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder of MBK Partners, highlighted South Korea and Japan as top buyout markets in Asia, with China also showing...

Insurtech Qoala has successfully raised USD47m in a Series C funding round, led by PayPal Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with...

Japanese banks are now more open to financing hostile acquisitions, influenced by new government takeover guidelines that challenge the...

Brunei Darussalam Central Bank, BDCB, and Bank of the Lao PDR, BOL, have officially joined the initiative, bringing the total to eight...

At the 2024 Smart City Summit and Expo in Taipei, ICT industry leaders emphasised the critical role of international partnerships in...