Asia Pacific News

Aussie watchdog hails new product intervention powers

Asia Pacific | Regulations & Legal

09 Apr 2019 by Pablo Conde

The Australian regulator says the new rules will bring further accountability to the market and protect financial services consumers

SRP Asia Pacific Awards: Phatra Securities capitalises on innovation and consistency

Asia Pacific | Conferences

08 Apr 2019 by Veselin Krastev

Despite the fall of Thai stock market due to an interest rate hike and slight pick up in volatility in 2018, Phatra Securities’ has remained a source of innovation and consistency in the market which has earned the firm SRP’s ‘Best Distributor Award, Thailand’. The award will be presented during the SRP Asia Conference 2019 on April 10 at the Conrad Centennial Hotel in Singapore.

SRP Asia Pacific Awards - DBS Bank Taiwan: helping clients to adjust portfolios according to market trends

Asia Pacific | Conferences

05 Apr 2019 by Marc Wolterink

DBS Bank has won Best Distributor in Taiwan for this year's SRP Asia awards.

SRP Asia Pacific Awards: Mirae expects ELS sales to go up this year

Asia Pacific | Conferences

04 Apr 2019 by Jihye Hwang

The South Korean securities house expects increased sales volume this year compared to the previous year on equity-linked notes.

SRP Asia Pacific Awards: UBS - focus on yield-based structures across varying maturities remains

Asia Pacific | Conferences

03 Apr 2019 by Petar Dimitrov

While on a global scale results for UBS Investment Bank pointed towards an increase in derivatives revenues to the tune of US$154m between 2017 and 2018, market turbulence in Australia and elsewhere was hard to overlook.

SRP Asia Pacific Awards: Leonteq’s top 10 performers deliver an average of 15% pa

Asia Pacific | Conferences

02 Apr 2019 by Pablo Conde

Leonteq has emerged as the structured products provider with the most consistent and highest returns in Thailand’s private banking market, with the bank’s top 10 maturities delivering an average of 15.7% pa. to investors in 2018.

Asia Awards 2019 buy-side survey results: Every cloud has a silver lining

Asia Pacific | Conferences

02 Apr 2019 by Amélie Labbe

‘Markets love volatility,’ said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in 2011. While she was referring specifically to the tough times the eurozone went through post- financial crisis, her statement also rings true in a wider international context

SRP Apac Personality of the Year 2019: Jérôme Niddam, Société Générale

Asia Pacific | Conferences

01 Apr 2019 by Jihye Hwang

Jérôme Niddam, head of global markets for Asia Pacific at Société Générale, will be given the Personality of the Year Award at SRP’s sixth Asia Pacific Conference on April 10 after receiving the most votes in the Singapore Awards Survey 2019. In this interview, he tells SRP Asia reporter Jihye Hwang about the bank’s plans to grow and maintain its market share.

Nomura gets green light for securities JV in China

Asia Pacific | Regulations & Legal

29 Mar 2019 by Pablo Conde

Nomura Holdings has received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to establish a securities joint venture in China, and is now making ‘the necessary arrangements to set up the company once the procedural requirements have been completed’.