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Wall Street banks face US$8 bil in municipal bond price-fixing claims
Some of the banks that are expected to go on trial next month are Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
July 12, 2023
Singapore economy
Recessionary risks still abound in increasingly 'two-sided economy': Analysts
Maybank economists have raised the probability of a recession over the next 12 months to 12% as of this month, from 9% in October.
November 23, 2022
Investing strategies
Barclays: Asia emerges out of China's long shadow
The good news: There is limited spillover on the rest of the region.
July 14, 2022
Environmental, Social and Governance
Coal is still raising trillions of dollars despite green shift
2022 could be a year of backsliding for some climate initiatives.
February 14, 2022
Company in the news
JP Morgan's head of Southeast Asia's M&A to join Barclays
The banker is at least the second senior executive in Singapore to leave JPMorgan recently.
March 16, 2021
Forex
Barclays to set up fourth electronic FX trading hub in Singapore
Barclays will build out a local version of the trading system, known as BARX, adding to hubs in New York, London and Tokyo.
September 16, 2020
Malaysia
Will banks suspend dividends?
A check with the country’s largest bank by assets Malayan Banking reveals that it has no plan to scrap its dividend payouts to shareholders.
April 09, 2020
Yield watch
The dividend poser
As a result of MOH measures, Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) had earlier announced measures to give time extensions for companies with Dec 31, 2019 year-ends to hold their AGMs by June 30, 2020.
April 03, 2020
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Barclays to cut around 100 senior jobs at investment bank
Globally, banks announced almost 80,000 job cuts last year -- the most since 2015.
January 17, 2020
Asia's big private banks boost assets under management to record
SINGAPORE (April 11): Asia’s biggest private banks boosted their assets under management to a record last year, rebounding from a 2015 contraction, amid acquisitions that swelled some firms’ portfolio holdings.
April 11, 2017