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18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )
11/04/2024 Samsung adds more language availability within Galaxy AI ( Electronics )
11/04/2024 YouTube Music promises Podcasts will get better on the platform ( General )
09/04/2024 WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing ( General )
09/04/2024 Google Messages will soon start to warn you when tapping on links sent by unknown senders ( General )
08/04/2024 Siri might end up King in the realm of digital assistants after iOS 18 AI makeover ( Electronics )
05/04/2024 Google’s “Find My Device” network reportedly launching in 3 days ( General )
04/04/2024 Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp users are reporting a “Major Disruption” worldwide ( General )

Retail Asia11/03/2024

Google Wallet is receiving a set of small quality of life updates designed to enhance the user experience and make it your go-to digital home for essential passes, tickets, and more. The updates include tighter integration with Gmail to eliminate the extra step of manually adding passes and movie tickets to your wallet. If you’ve […]

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Retail Asia19/02/2024

Some social media users are complaining that they are unable to use contactless payment system Apple Pay to ring up a transaction using a Chase credit card. On Apple’s System Status page, it notes that Apple Pay is undergoing some maintenance at the moment and adds that some users in Maryland may have issues with the […]

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Retail Asia04/09/2023

Global Finance magazine has given Nguyen Thi Hong, Vietnam’s first female central bank governor, an A+ on its 2023 Central Banker Report Cards. Hong, 55, is one of only three central bank governors in the world that was rated A+ by the U.S.-based magazine. The other two were the Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta […]

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Retail Asia01/09/2023

The bank engaged in an extensive review after being one of the banks affected by a Russian ransomware attack early in the year. The first casualty? Going digital. It is a small section in UBS’s full second-quarter report, but a telling one. Buried on page 41 is a small but substantial tidbit. The bank has […]

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Retail Asia22/08/2023

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 0.15% to 1,179.76 points Monday. The index closed 1.77 points higher after losing 55.49 points on Friday. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) fell by 38.49% to VND22.17 trillion ($930.73 million). CTG of state-owned lender VietinBank led with a 4.2% rise, followed by BID of state-owned lender BIDV, […]

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Retail Asia18/07/2023

UBS selects EY as its auditor for the expanded bank following its takeover of Credit Suisse in March. PwC will audit Credit Suisse’s books for 2023. EY will have lots more work to do at UBS starting next year, having been retained to audit the merged entity starting next. The Big Four firm has been […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2023

HSBC’s Swiss private banking unit is hiring a whole range of new staff from major banks and Geneva-based competitors like Lombard Odier. HSBC Private Bank (Switzerland) has been busy recruiting and strengthening its offshore business from Switzerland in the first half of the year, according to a statement on Thursday. Juan Antonio Roche is appointed the […]

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Retail Asia22/05/2023

Thai Son Investment Solutions Jsc has been fined VND870 million (US$37,100) for selling and buying back a stock in October last year without disclosing the information. The State Securities Commission of Vietnam announced the fine recently and prohibited the company from trading on the stock market for three months starting May 19. Thai Son surreptitiously […]

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Retail Asia15/05/2023

Techcombank has set a CASA (current account savings account) target of 55% by 2025 by investing in digitalization and increasing lending to retail customers and SMEs. At its recent annual general meeting, CEO Jens Lottner said he was optimistic about the bank’s ability to achieve the targets despite market volatility. Lottner said though Vietnam’s economy […]

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Retail Asia12/04/2023

Major cryptocurrency bitcoin breached the key $30,000 level for the first time in 10 months on Tuesday, adding to its steady gains as investors raised bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will soon end its aggressive monetary tightening campaign. Bitcoin peaked at $30,438 in Asian trade and was last 2% higher at $30,262. It has […]

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Retail Asia04/04/2023

More than a dozen lenders achieved bancassurance revenues of over VND1 trillion ($42,633 million) from new customers last year, according to Vietcombank Securities. Bancassurance refers to insurance products sold through banks. Premium income from new customers increased by 45% during the year, and overall premiums at by 16%. Military Bank led with more than VND2.1 […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2023

DTS Group and GMO have established a blockchain technology application and development center with the goal of promoting blockchain technology in Vietnam. The Mira Blockchain Center in Hanoi aims to bring blockchain technology to life through integrated technology-based physical products and high technology projects. The unit will research, apply, deploy, and transfer blockchain technology in […]

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Retail Asia08/02/2023

Nine-month interbank rate has climbed from 9.61% to 13% annually as of February 2, according to the central bank’s latest data. On February 2 banks borrowed VND225.7 trillion ($9.6 billion) from each other overnight at the rate of 6.26% per year, up 1.7% points from the end of last year. Other terms such as two […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2023

Capital Group sees new investment opportunities in fixed-income bonds and is entering into a partnership with the asset management division of UBS to that end. Fund manager Capital Group is entering into a partnership with the asset management division of UBS. According to a statement Tuesday, the investment firm has launched the Capital Group multi-sector income […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2022

British Bank Barclays is the latest private bank moving to Verbier to catch a crowd of international holidaymakers. Barclays Private bank is opening a temporary office in Verbier for the 2022/2023 ski season, it said in an emailed statement Wednesday. The new pop-up office aims to cater to clients’ needs during their holidays and is […]

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Retail Asia24/11/2022

Only one private bond issuance was recorded in October, indicating that companies remain reluctant to mobilize cash using this channel after recent arrests of alleged fraudsters. Nui Phao Mining Company under the Masan Group was the only corporate bond issuer last month with a batch of VND210 billion ($8.45 million) with a five-year maturity. This […]

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Retail Asia26/10/2022

At UBS, the focus on wealth management was born out of necessity during the financial crisis. One global crisis later, that strategy is helping it leave global competitors behind. Lower profits, less money invested by clients money, and fewer bonuses for advisors. At first blush, the third quarter has not been very promising for UBS’s […]

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Retail Asia23/09/2022

UBS is teaming up with a network of alternative investment firms in the US that manages more than $300 billion in institutional assets. The US National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC), the nation’s largest network of diversely owned alternative investment firms, has signed up UBS as a partner. UBS will become a platinum sponsor of […]

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Retail Asia06/09/2022

Sometimes seemingly mundane insights can help in the digital age, especially since most Swiss banks are «knotty colossi,» as Google Maps co-creator Samuel Widmann finds. Can banks learn something from the US tech giant Google? A seminar at the School of Banking (FSB) in Zurich explored this question last week with Samuel Widmann, co-inventor of Google Maps. […]

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Retail Asia02/09/2022

Digitalization in banking is placing new demands on telephone advice. UBS is restructuring its Swiss call centers under new management. UBS Switzerland is realigning its Swiss contact center (CCS), according to an internal letter to employees, as the bank responds to the strong increase of remote services in the banking business. According to the memo, […]

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