Singapore

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), a subsidiary of Standard Chartered, has said it will acquire Cazenove Asia, a unit of the British brokerage firm Cazenove. Although Standard Chartered,... 2008-11-18

On November 4 India's Religare Enterprises confirmed it would buy Lotus India Asset Management (Lotus AMC), injecting an undisclosed amount of capital in a bid to strengthen the mutual... 2008-11-10

In the biggest Singapore Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) deal to date, YTL Corporation, one of Malaysia's largest conglomerates, has acquired around 36% in Macquarie Prime REIT... 2008-11-05

On October 6 Temasek Holdings, Singapore's state-owned investment company, kicked off the third and final instalment of its power sector liberalisation programme by putting electricity... 2008-10-08

A US$2.5bn bid by the Maurbeni-led 'Lion Power' consortium has seen it emerge as the winner in the auction for Senko Power, Singapore's largest power generating company. The utility... 2008-09-15

Islamic finance continues to boom in Asia, as Singapore property developer City Developments (CityDev) plans a sukuk (Islamic bond) sale the same week as Malaysian lender Hong Leung... 2008-08-20

The agreement between Singapore Airlines and Temasek to acquire a 24% stake in China Eastern Airlines expired on August 9. China Eastern said the agreement automatically terminated... 2008-08-13

As CFW has previously noted, every week seems to bring another example of emerging market sovereign wealth funds (SWF) coming to the aid of a troubled western bank, and this week... 2008-07-30

Maritime Capital Shipping has begun book-building for its Singapore IPO, which it hopes will raise up to US$300mn. Since its establishment in April 2007 by former Pacific Basin CEO... 2008-06-25

AMP Capital Investors, the private equity arm of Australian financial corporation AMP Ltd, announced on June 23 that it plans to increase its long-term investments in the Asian property... 2008-06-24