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By Andrei Skvarsky. ANZ, one of Australia’s largest banks, has agreed to sell its remaining 5.2 per cent stake in AmBank, one of the biggest lenders in Malaysia. ANZ would be paid 4.10 Malaysian ringgit ($0.87) per share in the deal, the Australian bank said in a statement. The upcoming sale, to be completed on […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. Fitch Ratings has given Australia’s five largest banks rating upgrades in assessing their capacity to keep their senior creditors protected if the lenders defaulted on their debt. The long-term issuer default rating (IDR) was raised by one notch for each of the five banks – to A+ for Macquarie Bank and to […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. Dubai received $9.77bn in 2023 as foreign direct investment (FDI), the emirate’s Department of Economy and Tourism said. The United States was the source of the largest single proportion – one-fifth – of the amount. British investments made up the second-biggest share, about 9 per cent. India was third with an input of […]

Macquarie Capital, the advisory and investing arm of financial services group Macquarie, has hired Honggui Li, a former banker at Credit Suisse and UBS, as head of greater China. Li has almost 25 years’ experience of business in greater China, according to a statement from Macquarie, a company headquartered in Sydney. He was head of […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. Macquarie, a global financial services group, has launched an active large-growth exchange-traded fund (ETF), which began trading on the NYSE Arca exchange in New York on May 15. The Macquarie Focused Large Growth ETF (LRGG ETF) is the fourth active ETF of Macquarie Asset Management, a division of the Sydney-headquartered group. The […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. Liechtenstein-based financial boutique The Trading Pit, which is part of Estonian private equity fintech Pinorena Capital and specialises in proprietary trading (investing its own capital rather that living off client commissions or fees), has announced top-tier staff departures. Thomas Heyden has resigned as chief executive of The Trading Pit’s Liechtenstein division and […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. Global asset manager Janus Henderson will acquire Europe-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider Tabula Investment Management, the two companies have announced. Tabula’s arm Tabula Capital is not part of the buyout and will remain a separate entity, Tabula and Janus Henderson said in a joint statement. Janus Henderson expects that, owing to the […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. A “unique” relationship to the United Kingdom makes Guernsey, a UK dependency and an international financial centre, an effective channel for foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK, which is “ever more vital” for its economy but declining, according to a Guernsey-based financier. Guernsey “channels investment into the UK that other international […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. Sanctum, an investment company headquartered in London, has launched an artificial intelligence-powered investment fund. The Financial Science Holdings Limited (FSHL) fund, which is based in Britain’s dependency of Guernsey, uses an algorithmic engine to select undervalued but potentially profitable securities by going through a wide range of data, Guernsey Finance, a British […]

By Andrei Skvarsky. One of the funds of global private equity firm Permira has pledged to acquire a majority stake in BioCatch, an Israeli digital fraud and money laundering detection company credited with having saved banks and bank customers from losses exceeding $3.5bn. The size of the stake has not been disclosed. The bulk of […]