The AFP pressured the bank to escalate their request for documents "to the highest priority at CBA" noting $21 million had been laundered by the syndicate and five people arrested, including three in Hong Kong. The bank agreed to close the accounts ... ( read original story ...)
Why Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing is setting his sights outside the region
CKP has made over HK$100 billion of investments over the years, he noted, adding that it had plenty of land in the mainland. Still, according to its results filing, its development land bank on the mainland had shrunk to 114 million square feet by June 30 ... ( read original story ...)
Water Aid Ghana inaugurates project at Abokyikrom
He said more than 150,000 people have been able to access safe water whilst 90,000 others have access to sanitation facilities through the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation Water Programme implemented in five district including the Birim North and ... ( read original story ...)
TasWeekend: In step and on the same page
The couple’s love of Asian furniture speaks to their various trips through Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam, Macau, Indonesia, The Philippines and, for Chris, years spent working in newspapers and banking in Hong Kong. Somewhere along the way, Lucinda became a ... ( read original story ...)
Pierre Lemieux: Trump’s ‘fair trade’ messenger is an undercover enemy of free trade
Free unilateral trade — when a country decides to just unilaterally abolish all of its own import barriers, as in Hong Kong or in 19th-century Britain — would produce many if not most of the benefits of multilateral free trade. The fact that America ... ( read original story ...)
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd (BNKHF) TEMA Picking up Steam
TEMA can also be used as a momentum indicator. This is a momentum indicator that is the inverse of the Fast Stochastic Oscillator. The benefit of the Schaff Trend Cycle is that it is meant to be quicker than the standard macd and stochastic signals. ( read original story ...)
Cathay Pacific overseas operations to be affected by ‘review’ of workforce
The review will affect 7,600 staff outside Hong Kong in more than 100 places ... a measure it said it would deploy again “from time to time”. Ellis Taylor, Asia finance editor at aviation news portal FlightGlobal, said of the cost-saving measures ... ( read original story ...)
From opium wars to HSBC, writer Maurice Collis brought Asia to vivid life
Collis also produced Wayfoong (1965), commissioned as a centenary history for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which engagingly details the bank’s establishment and first 100 years of operations. At the time, popular authors such as ... ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: China regulators plan to crack down further on overseas deals
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China plans to further tighten the screws ... On top of tightened scrutiny of deal terms, the country's foreign exchange and banking regulators are also looking to step up their monitoring of loans made by the overseas branches ... ( read original story ...)
CommBank ATM scandal syndicate linked to the biggest ice haul in WA history
One of the money laundering syndicates linked with the Commonwealth Bank compliance scandal worked with drug smugglers who imported methamphetamine worth $315 million, the largest ice seizure in West Australian history. The Hong Kong-linked syndicate used ... ( read original story ...)
Another strong month of hiring sends stock indexes higher
Bank of America climbed 60 cents ... the Nikkei 225 index in Japan fell 0.4 percent while South Korea's Kospi added 0.4 percent. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong edged up 0.1 percent. ( read original story ...)
CBA heads to court over money laundering allegations
AUSTRAC alleges in this case that by April 2015 the bank had identified "repeated, suspicious and connected" patterns of deposits but still permitted the transfer of money to accounts in Hong Kong. Anti-money laundering laws in Australia require the ... ( read original story ...)
Asia stocks edge higher, dollar languishes on U.S. politics, mixed data
China's blue-chip CSI 300 lost 0.3 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.1 percent ... and held near that level on Friday, after the Bank of England's policymakers kept interest rates at a record-low 0.25 percent. "The unsavory combination of ... ( read original story ...)
What every Canadian investor needs to know today
Royal Bank of Scotland shares were about 2 per cent higher on after ... The Shanghai composite index was down 0.35 per cent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 0.12 per cent. Oil prices were lower early Friday as concerns about rising output continued ... ( read original story ...)