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Retail Asia10/01/2022

Tighter government COVID-19 restrictions from Saturday already prompted UBS and other banks to re-impose workplace limits. The Hong Kong government yesterday announced a raft of new COVID-19 restrictions yesterday following a number of untraceable Omnicron variant cases, a step that is already prompting UBS and other banks to ask bankers to resume working from home. […]

Retail Asia31/05/2021

Top executives of financial firms in Hong Kong will be granted exemptions from quarantine in the city, according to the local regulator, giving the sector a first-mover advantage to reopening. Hong Kong authorities launched new rules, effective as of last week, that will enable alliterative traveling options specifically for senior executives in the financial sector […]

Retail Asia06/03/2020

UBS is halting international travel for its staff, asking its employees to postpone meetings or opt for remote ones. The move comes in response to COVID-19. The Swiss bank on Wednesday told its more than 60,000-strong staff to stop traveling for meetings, a UBS spokeswoman said on Wednesday. UBS is adopting the policy for all not […]

Retail Asia30/01/2020

The investment bank of UBS didn’t deliver as much as the bank had hoped it would in 2019. The heads of the unit have reacted to the underperformance by setting new hiring targets. UBS wants to sign experienced staff to boost its investment bank in the U.S., according to a report. The move follows after the […]

Retail Asia05/12/2019

HSBC Private Bank stayed on course with its hiring plan in Asia, having boosted regional headcount by 300 bankers in one year already. The bank announced last year it would add 700 people to the private bank in Asia by 2022 from a headcount of 1,100 as of 2017-end. The bank has nearly reached half […]

Retail Asia22/08/2016

UOB Indonesia and Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) have joined forces to educate bankers with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a banker from UOB Indonesia has said. “A lot of these SMEs don’t have the right networks for distributors and suppliers and bookkeeping is essential,” UOB Indonesia business banking head Lawrence Loh said in Jakarta […]

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Hong Kong Sends Bankers Home

Hong Kong Launches Banker Bubble

UBS Grounds Bankers Amid Virus Fears

UBS to Hire Investment Bankers in Performance Bid

HSBC Hired 300 Private Bankers in a Year

UOB Indonesia and ITB join up to train SME bankers