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Southeast Asia

ABA's makeover into a Cambodian digital leader

Central Asian expertise and North American money made for a powerful mix: together they have turned ABA Bank into a digital entrepreneur and propelled it to the top tier of Cambodia’s banking industry.

January 15, 2020

Northeast Asia

South Korea: Let the app wars begin

New banking rules have blown the competition wide open in South Korea, allowing banks to piggy-back off each other’s client relationships by offering a better mobile app.

Morgan Davis, January 14, 2020

Northeast Asia

South Korea: Stalled banks go abroad for growth

South Korea’s banks are looking overseas for opportunities and faster profit growth now that their domestic market no longer offers the revenues and excitement it once did.

Morgan Davis, January 14, 2020

Brokers Poll

Asiamoney Brokers Poll 2019: The people who left their mark

This year’s winners of the Asiamoney Brokers Poll had to navigate myriad challenges, from trade tensions between the US and China to uncertainty around global growth. They managed to find exciting investment opportunities by quickly adapting to the changing market conditions – something they will need to do in 2020 as well.

January 14, 2020

Brokers Poll

Asiamoney Brokers Poll 2019: HSBC proves its mettle

When a bank performs well during a strong year for equity markets, it’s easy to say it is just going with the flow, but when a firm gives clients the best advice during turbulent times, it proves its worth.

January 14, 2020

Central Asia

Inside Kaspi’s Kazakh banking experiment

Kaspi.kz is Kazakhstan’s most exciting technology company, its most ambitious bank and perhaps its next international export, but rivals think they have figured out its secrets.

Matthew Thomas, January 13, 2020

Northeast Asia

Can Hong Kong endure as a financial centre?

The economy is suffering as months of protests show no sign of abating. Banks have been targeted by demonstrators. So far, its financial markets have been largely unaffected. But surely it is only a matter of time before Asia’s greatest financial centre suffers too?

Eric Ellis, January 13, 2020

Northeast Asia

Hong Kong: Chan aims to maintain financial order

Hong Kong’s Financial Services under-secretary is a rare species: a government official willing to talk to the media, despite holding such a tough job of keeping the SAR’s markets operating smoothly in a time of chaos.

Eric Ellis, January 13, 2020

Central Asia

Stock exchanges: Kazakhstan finds two is a crowd

The government has big ambitions when it comes to the financial sector, but a second stock exchange, launched as part of a bold plan to turn the country into a Dubai on the Steppes, is a big ask when it comes to developing the nation’s capital markets.

Matthew Thomas, January 13, 2020

Southeast Asia

Malaysia: Lim finds revolution hard going

Toppling a political dynasty is one thing, stabilizing Malaysia’s corruption-riddled finances is quite another, as finance minister Lim Guan Eng has discovered in his first 18 months in the job.

Eric Ellis, January 13, 2020

Opinion

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Treasury

Trade finance bounces back, but supply chain resilience remains a challenge

In a momentous year for the industry, the top tier of trade finance banks remained remarkably stable in this year’s Trade Finance Survey. Supply chain disruption will continue to bedevil the sector and liquidity provision together with digital innovation will place sizeable demands on trade finance banks in 2022.

Paul Golden, April 01, 2022

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