Finance Asia

Nomura appoints Jesse Bhattal as president and COO of its global wholesale business, and brings his former Lehman colleague Philip Lynch back to the region as CEO for Asia ex-Japan.

CapitaCommercial Trust sells S$225 million worth of five-year CBs with the support of a few large investors.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch lures Charles Alexander to head corporate banking coverage for Asia-Pacific, just two years after he joined Standard Chartered.

Eng Seat Moey, DBS's head of asset-backed structured products, talks about the unique combination offered by investing in S-Reits – stable income and attractive growth.

Foreign investors contribute only 2.2% of the QIB order volume as valuations are deemed too aggressive, but the government gets $2.18 billion to plug holes in its budget.

Fook Woo Group is one of six small-cap listing hopefuls to kick-off a Hong Kong IPO in the past week.

We chat with Brian Williams, the man responsible for building the boutique brands of Swire Hotels in the region.

UBS is in the midst of trying to hire a team of up to 12 fixed-income salespeople from Goldman Sachs in Korea and Hong Kong.

The former RBS banker switches roles to join the expanding Morgan Stanley FXEM team.

Eight sellers, led by Korea Exchange Bank, raise $817 million from the sale of a 6.7% stake in Hynix Semiconductor after failing to exit the Korean memory-chip maker through a M&A transaction.

The 10-year deal is issued from the Hong Kong power producer's $2.5 billion medium-term note programme and prices aggressively thanks to stable market conditions.

Private equity firm CVC Asia Pacific exits its investment in Malaysian paper manufacturer Paperbox through a sale to a strategic buyer, a trend that specialists say is on the rise.

The innovatively structured deal gets a triple-A rating from both Moody's and S&P, allowing the Singapore-listed trust to achieve a coupon of just 1.6%.

Citi’s Sridhar Kanthadai says corporate spending is back, especially for treasury solutions.

CFOs call for regional cooperation to influence global IFRS accounting standards.

FRSGlobal’s Selwyn Blair-Ford warns corporate treasurers to be wary of too much banking regulation.

Cnooc makes its largest overseas investment to date, shelling out $3.1 billion for a 50% stake in Argentine oil and gas company Bridas Corporation.

Just two months after he joined the firm, Keshav Sanghi is stepping up to head equities for Citi in India, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Nikhil Nagle.

China’s plan to turn Shanghai into a leading financial centre by 2020 could be undermined by its ability to attract the talent it needs, as suggested by respondents to our latest poll.

We reveal the houses that had the best year in 2009 in our third annual Achievement Awards for Japan.

We reveal the best deals of 2009 in our third annual Achievement Awards for Japan.

Standard Bank’s Craig Polkinghorne and Tee Chong Ong talk about Asia’s evolving trade relationship with Africa.

Technology vendors launch treasury platforms and bank’s tout their cash management knowledge through roadshows and tomes.

A roundup of the latest CFO and treasurer moves from around the region.

Bakrieland prices its $150 million deal after 1.5 days of marketing, while $350 million worth of bonds exchangeable into YTL scrape through at quite aggressive terms.