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Retail Asia28/11/2022

Prices of gold bars branded SJC on Monday dropped 0.4% from the weekend to VND67.35 million ($2,716.82) per tael. Selling prices of gold rings remained unchanged, reaching VND54.05 million per tael. A tael is equal to 37.5 grams or 1.2 ounces. Globally, gold prices slipped on Monday, as a stronger U.S. dollar made the greenback-priced […]

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Retail Asia01/03/2022

Russia holds vast foreign exchange reserves, a large chunk of which are held offshore, having the potential to upend money markets. The country had international reserves totaling $630 billion at the end of January, consisting of $467 billion in foreign exchange and $132 billion in gold. The rest consists of special drawing rights (SDRs) and IMF reserves, Bank […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2021

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index fell 0.01 percent to 1,476.02 points Tuesday with trading value the highest in six sessions. The index closed 0.19 points lower after gaining nearly 13 points Tuesday. Trading value on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE), on which the index is based, rose 6.75 percent to VND27.65 trillion ($1.2 billion). The […]

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Retail Asia13/12/2021

Switzerland’s largest online bank is riding the crypto wave. Swissquote’s ambitions include setting up its own trading platform for digital currencies, sales manager Jan De Schepper said. Swissquote plans to open its own crypto exchange before the end of the first half of 2022. We want to enable more trading in various cryptocurrencies on the […]

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Retail Asia08/12/2021

Binance Asia Services, which operates Binance’s Singapore entity, has taken an 18-percent stake in Hg Exchange (HGX), a Singapore-based private securities exchange. Binance Singapore will work with HGX in enhancing offerings of products and services supported by blockchain technology, following its strategic investment in the platform, according to an announcement on Wednesday. HGX, founded by PhillipCapital, PrimePartners […]

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Retail Asia18/11/2021

Crypto.com has bought the naming rights to the arena that is home to NBA team Los Angeles Lakers, in what is said to be one of the largest naming deals in sports history. The Staples Center in Los Angeles, home to the Lakers basketball team as well as the L.A. Kings hockey team and women’s […]

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Retail Asia15/11/2021

Hong Kong-based OneDegree has launched a new insurance solution that provides digital asset protection for cryptocurrencies. Digital insurer OneDegree has partnered with crypto exchange Hong Kong Digital Asset Exchange (HKbitEX) to offer protection for digital currencies, according to a statement. In its bid to strengthen the exchange’s safety and security for institutional investors, OneDegree will […]

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Retail Asia11/11/2021

A shift to round-the-clock trading in August has seen trading volumes in the two months surpassing the total trading volume of the first eight months of the year by 40 percent. DBS has reported strong growth in its digital asset ecosystem, anchored by DDEx, or the DBS Digital Exchange, which now has over S$600 million in […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2021

Singapore Exchange (SGX), has announced personnel changes to its board of directors. Jane Diplock, non-executive non-independent director, will be retiring from the board by rotation at the end of the bourse’s 22nd Annual General Meeting on 7 October, SGX said in a filing on Tuesday. Diplock, 72, was also a member of SGX’s audit and risk management committees. […]

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Retail Asia14/06/2021

Chinese users were reportedly unable to find results for popular cryptocurrency exchanges on major search engines in the country. Keyword searches for trading platforms such as Binance, OKEx and Huobi yielded no results, according to various media outlets. The searches were conducted on major search engines like Baidu, Sogou, Zhihu, and Weibo. This marks yet […]

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Retail Asia28/05/2020

The bourse said it will continue to broaden and deepen coverage of Asia by developing more derivatives products on its own or in collaboration with its partners. Singapore Exchange (SGX) will discontinue its license agreements with index provider MSCI for equity futures indices and futures contracts when they expire in February 2021, SGX announced on Wednesday. […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2020

The firm wants to offer its platform and services to a wider audience in APAC, following a number of strategic partnerships and business growth in 2019. Sydney-based cryptocurrency exchange Independent Reserve, announced its launch in Singapore this week as a separate entity, which will allow Singapore residents to buy, trade and hold digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, […]

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Retail Asia06/12/2019

China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies has led at least five local exchanges to halt servicing of domestic users or their whole operations altogether. Last week, Chinese exchange operators Bitsoda and Akdex announced that it would cease its operations. Btuex and Idax said they would close domestic operations and focus on overseas users. Biss said it had […]

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Retail Asia29/11/2019

In another move to internationalize Chinese markets, plans are underway for a Shanghai-Frankfurt stock link driven in part for Europe’s «unabated eagerness» for collaboration with the second-largest economy. The China Europe International Exchange (CEINEX) is currently preparing for a stock connect program, according to state media, which reflects European countries’ «unabated eagerness» for Chinese collaboration in […]

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Retail Asia28/11/2019

Vietnam has significantly lowered penalties for illegal currency exchanges following outrage over a man being fined VND90 million ($3,900) for exchanging $100 last year. The fine was revoked after a public outcry erupted over disproportionate punishment. An individual or a shop illegally exchanging up to $1,000 will receive a warning instead of a fine of […]

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Retail Asia23/09/2019

The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited faced a day of tech hiccups, including the latest denial-of-service attacks on its website. According to HKEX CEO, Charles Li Xiaojia, the bourse’s website was subject to distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) – a cyberattack whereby overwhelming traffic is imposed to slow or restrict access from other browsers – and […]

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Retail Asia22/03/2019

Telenor Pakistan recently hosted a dinner for a delegation from National Defence University (NDU) Islamabad at its 345 Campus comprising of management of two organizations and participants of International Workshop on Leadership and Security (IWLS).The purpose of the event was to engage in a dialogue on how technology can play a vital role towards national […]

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Retail Asia18/02/2019

The dollar was marginally weaker on Monday, as increasing expectations of a U.S.-Sino trade deal led investors to shift away from the safety of the greenback into riskier assets. Both the United States and China reported progress in five days of negotiations in Beijing last week, although the White House said much work remains to […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2019

Asia stocks hovered near four-month highs on Monday after a mixed performance on Wall Street at the close of last week, while the dollar firmed against the yen following strong US job and manufacturing data. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was almost flat. It had scaled a four-month peak on Friday along […]

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Retail Asia27/12/2018

Gas Malaysia Bhd has announced a higher average effective natural gas tariff for the non-power sector in Peninsular Malaysia at RM32.92 per MMBtu, which is 0.7% higher than the current RM32.69 per MMBtu. The revision will be effective from Jan 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019. The group told the stock exchange that the government […]

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