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ZURICH: Geneva's international expo of fine watches switches to Shanghai on Wednesday (Apr 14) for a physical version after staging an online edition to keep the prestigious fair going during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, now restyled as Watches and Wonders ...

STANDARD Chartered has named UBS veteran Raymond Ang as its new global head of private and priority banking, subject to regulatory approval.

SYDNEY: New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, minister for climate change James Shaw said on Tuesday (Apr 13). All banks with total assets of more than...

The only real inflationary danger comes from those fanning the flames of war with China, says Professor James K Galbraith.

With Grab’s impending US$35 billion valuation, CEO Anthony Tan is poised to make history, say the Financial Times’ Mercedes Ruehl and Stefania Palma.

Grab’s decision to opt for an SPAC listing rather than an IPO may seem strange to some, but it is a timely and strategic move, says Li Jianggan.

Joe Biden’s move to raise taxes may be well-timed, given domestic demands for government expenditure and a growing global acceptance that corporate taxes must be raised. But this has implications for Singapore, says NUS Business School’s Assoc Prof Simon Poh.

The US government's budget deficit surged to an all-time high of US$1.7 trillion for the first six months of this budget year, nearly double the previous record, as another round of economic-support checks added billions of dollars to spending last month.

President Joe Biden used a virtual meeting with corporate leaders about a global shortage of semiconductors to push on Monday (Apr 12) for his US$2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, telling them that the US should be the world’s computer chip leader.

BEIJING: China has imposed a sweeping restructuring on Jack Ma's Ant Group, the fintech group whose record US$37 billion IPO was derailed by regulators in November, underscoring Beijing's determination to rein in its Internet giants. The overhaul, which has been in the works for several months ...