Banking/Financial Service
Fifth Annual World Financial Planning Day Is Wednesday
Financial Planning Standards Board Promotes Value of Financial Planning on October 6th During IOSCO's World Investor Week NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB) and its global network of organizations will unite Wednesday, 6 October, for the fifth a...
UOB's pandemic response to help ASEAN SMEs on the road to recovery and growth sees it named the World's Best Bank for SMEs by Euromoney
SINGAPORE, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- UOB has been named the World's Best Bank for SMEs at theEuromoney Global Awards for Excellence 2021 based on its deep regional connectivity, expertise and continued support of SMEs to enable post-pandemic recovery and growth. The latest win follows from oth...
Thrive Alternatives Launches to Disrupt The Global Private Market Industry
SINGAPORE, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Thrive Alternatives, a private funds advisory firm announces its establishment today to address the increasingly crucial role ofAsia as an investment hub and bridge the market gap for intelligent technology for the future of institutional fundraising and...
The Korea Herald introduces: ASEAN "Super" Week to highlight ASEAN and Korea Partnership
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Following announcement covered by The Korea Herald, The ASEAN-Korea Centre will organize the ASEAN Week, from 5 to 6 October, both on and offline. The flagship event will be held in conjunction with the 'Korea-ASEAN & India Business Week 2021' in p...
Survey: Six in 10 Singapore businesses are in survival mode with pandemic volatility, yet optimistic for the future
SINGAPORE, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Almost six in 10 (59%) Singapore business leaders describe their companies as surviving, with new waves of COVID-19 being their main challenge in 2021. In fact, 41% had considered closing their businesses from January toAugust 2021 due to pandemic volatilit...
Aryza Expands Global Reach To Launch Aryza Australia
DUBLIN, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Aryza
Joy Spreader Group Buys Back HK$120 Million Worth of Shares for Inclusion in its Share Incentive Plan
BEIJING, Oct. 3, 2021 /PR Newswire/ -- Joy Spreader Group (HKG: 6988, "the Group") announced onSeptember 30, 2021 that the trustee of the Group's Share Incentive Plan had purchased 42.35 million of its shares from the market for a total consideration of someHK$120 million (approx. US$15.6 million...
EQT appoints Heads of Private Equity and Infrastructure in Japan
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT is pleased to announce two new senior hires,Tetsuro Onitsuka who joins as Head of EQT Private Equity Japan, and Masahiko Kato who joins as Head of EQT Infrastructure Japan. Tetsuro and Masahiko will continue to build theTokyo-based team with both local a...
CBDCs are Designed to be Very Stable; Majority of Central Banks Exploring CBDCs: IMF
NEW DELHI and MUMBAI, India, Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- "About 80-100 Central Banks around the world, including G20 nations, are exploring the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and are in some sort of pilot or testing stages,"Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director Monetary and Capi...
CoinGeek Cocktail Party
Special guests Adrian Grenier & Emily Ratajkowski NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CoinGeek will be hosting the first BSV Blockchain ** Auction and Cocktail Party on the eve of the latest CoinGeek Conference, which showcases the amazing opportunities on BSV, the largest utility public bloc...
CStone presents ARROW study data for GAVRETO® (pralsetinib) in Chinese patients with RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) for the first time in a late breaking oral abstract session at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association 2021
* Primary efficacy results showed GAVRETO had robust and durable anti-tumor activity in the Chinese patients with advanced or metastatic RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), with a confirmed objective response rate (ORR) of 73.1%. And the 9-month duration of response (DOR) rate was 100% ...
Joy Spreader Group to Invest Additional HK$2.898 Million to Repurchase 1.178 Million of its Own Shares
BEIJING, Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Joy Spreader (HKG: 6988, "the Group") announced an additional investment ofHK$2.898 million (approx.US$376,700) to buy back 1.178 million of its shares at a price ofHK$2.46 per share (approx. US$0.32) on September 30. Combined with the shares repurchased on ...
Joy Spreader Group Repurchases 989,000 of its Own Shares for HK$2.137 Million
BEIJING, Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Joy Spreader Group Inc. (HKG: 6988; "the Group") announced on September 29 the repurchase of 989,000 shares of its own stock for a total consideration ofHK$2.137 million (approx. US$277,800) at prices ranging fromHK$2.14 (approx. US$0.27) to HK$2.19 (approx. ...
Global Infrastructure Partners Announces Preferred Equity Investment in Easton Energy
NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Infrastructure Partners ("GIP") announced that it has made a preferred equity investment of up to$245 million in Easton Energy LLC ("Easton"). Easton is a Houston based midstream company focused on developing infrastructure assets that support the t...
BRI's Rights Issue Oversubscribed, Raises IDR 95.9 Trillion in Funding
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (IDX: BBRI)has raised IDR 95.9 trillion from the issuance of IDR 28.2 billion rights issue for Ultra Micro Holding's establishment. The figure has shown a great achievement with oversubscribed rights issue, as...
Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Launches East Malaysia Crude Palm Oil Futures (FEPO)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad ("Bursa Malaysia Derivatives") will be launching the East Malaysia Crude Palm Oil Futures ("FEPO") Contract to meet the evolving needs of theSabah and Sarawak palm oil market players for greater price transpare...
Simple2Trade pivots to FYNXT to usher in a new era of digital transformation in financial services
SINGAPORE, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Simple2Trade today unveiled a transformation in its brand to purposefully reflect the transition from a purely functional to a deeply experiential product and solution set. The company, now known as FYNXT (aka FINNEXT), offers vertically integrated digital ...
Flex By Finaxar Continues Mission to Eliminate Friction in B2B Payments For SMEs
SINGAPORE, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The pandemic has accelerated the
adoption of digital payments, and managing finance on digital platforms is now
the new norm. Especially for cash-tight SMEs, an agile money management service
is crucial to increasing overall efficiency.
Mach49 Expands Singapore Hub to Further Advance Corporate Venture Building in Asia
Mach49 appointed as a venture studio of the Corporate Venture Launchpad, a programme by the Singapore Economic Development Board SINGAPORE and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mach49 , the growth incubator for global businesses, announced its appointment as a venture stud...
BGV Raises $110M to focus on Enterprise AI and Cross-Border Investments
With a global set of LPs from Europe, Asia and the U.S., the VC firm's fourth fund will support disruptive Enterprise 4.0 companies from around the world. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) firmBenhamou Global Ventures (BGV), which invests in Ent...
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