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Bank reports prompt jitters for the indexes

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Both Hong Kong and mainland stocks at one stage fell yesterday as two major Chinese banks reported weaker first-quarter earnings. But both indexes recovered towards closing.The Hang Seng Index ended just 42 points lower at 28,400, while the Shanghai Composite Index closed flat at 4,476 points after ...

The training you need in 2015 to boost your banking career in Asia

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If you’re an Asian finance professional pondering which new skills to learn or which training courses to complete in 2015, it pays to prioritise those that are most sought after by banks in the region. You stand a much better chance of securing a promotion or career change next year if you can...

More Damage Expected For Hong Kong Stock Market

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The Hong Kong stock market has alternated between positive and negative finishes through the last five trading days since the end of the two-day winning streak in which it had climbed almost 570 points or 2.3 percent. The Hang Seng Index closed just below the 24,500-point plateau, and now the market...

Recovery Expected For Hong Kong Shares

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The Hong Kong stock market has slipped into the red in back-to-back sessions, giving away more than 40 points or 0.2 percent in that span. The Hang Seng Index finished just below the 24,490-point plateau, although the market may find renewed support on Monday.The global forecast for the Asianmarkets...

Report: Drastic streamlining for SOEs

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Stocks surge on belief that restructuring and mergers will create globally competitive giantsThe nation may slash the number of central State-owned enterprises to 40 from 112 at present through large-scale mergers as part of a broad plan to reform the inefficient State sector, a report in China'...

Macquarie said to cut Asia banking workforce as deals fizzle

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Macquarie Group Ltd plans to cut about half of its investment-banking workforce in Asia as chief executive officer Nicholas Moore reshapes the firm, people familiar with the matter said.About 80 to 90 jobs would be eliminated in the reductions, one of the people said, asking not to be identified bec...

China banks’ 2015 profit growth seen below 5%: DBS Vickers

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Chinese banks are likely to see their net profit grow by low-single digit in percentage terms this year due to narrowed interest rate spreads and worsening asset quality, DBS Vickers said on Monday.Net profit expansion of the lenders will be in the zero to five percent range compared to the level in...

Liquidnet chooses BNP Paribas for back office services

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BNP Paribas Securities Services has announced a significant new mandate in Asia Pacific with Liquidnet, the institutional trading network. From December 2014, the custodian bank will provide Liquidnet with a comprehensive suite of back office services including; third party clearing, settlement and ...

Macquarie said to cut Asia banking workforce as deals fizzle

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Macquarie Group Ltd plans to cut about half of its investment-banking workforce in Asia as chief executive officer Nicholas Moore reshapes the firm, people familiar with the matter said.About 80 to 90 jobs would be eliminated in the reductions, one of the people said, asking not to be identified bec...

China Construction Bank next big SOE to embrace reform

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The second-largest lender on the mainland says it will look into mixed ownership under reform push that will lead to better governance.The mainland's biggest banks might have been the most diligent students last year. Or at least, that is the claim.China Construction Bank Corp chairman Wang Hong...

CIPS set to grant clearing business to foreign banks

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China's launch of its international payment system (CIPS) this year should end the monopoly that the country's yuan clearing banks enjoy, giving foreign banks a share of the mushrooming yuan clearing business.Seven of the 20 banks selected to participate in the system initially are foreign, ...

Fight Over China Currency Policies Threatens Vote on Trade Bill

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WASHINGTON — A heated dispute over how to challenge China on currency policy has imperiled a trade bill that has become President Obama’s top legislative priority, uniting even the president’s top Democratic supporters against taking up the bill in the Senate.Senator Mitch McConnel...

Fluctuations dizzy investors

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The Hang Seng Index extended Tuesday's downtrend and fell another 114 points to close at 27,640, though it had once reached an intraday of 28,054.The Shanghai Composite Index lost another 1.6 percent yesterday after diving 4 percent the day before. The daily movement was near 5 percent.The HSI i...

Local bonds no easy sell to China's banks

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Given the huge debt burden at commercial banks, the PBOC may have to keep pumping cash to expand the loan swap programme.Just how much cash will the People's Bank of China need to hand out to get commercial banks into local government bonds? Some experts say it might have to finance the whole th...

Here's why investment volume dropped in Q1 2015

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The market has become quieter.The Hong Kong commercial property investment market turned quieter in Q1 2015, with transaction volume falling significantly.According to a research note from CBRE, total investment turnover (including transactions worth US$10 million and above, excluding pure land site...

Agricultural Bank Profit Unexpectedly Falls as Economy Cools

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Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., the first of the nation’s biggest lenders to report fourth-quarter earnings, posted an unexpected decline in profit as net fee income fell and bad-loan provisions swelled.Profit was 27 billion yuan ($4.4 billion) in the three months ended Dec. 31, down from 28....

Financial Briefs: News Digest

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AcquisitionsAlibaba’s Jack MaIn Deal for ReorientFive investors including Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Hong Kong-listed Reorient Group Ltd. amid growing interest in the city’s brokerages.According to a Hong Kong stock exchange filing on Thursday, Mr. ...

China retakes spot as biggest holder of U.S. debt

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Well, that was short-lived. After just one month, China has nudged Japan out of the way, retaking the top spot as the world's biggest holder of U.S. debt.Treasury Department data released Friday showed that China owned $1.261 trillion worth of U.S. government securities at the end of March, comp...