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Compliance
19 September 2025

From Cryptos To Singapore’s COSMIC World – New Frontiers In Compliance

This news service discusses establishing sources of wealth, the challenge of cryptos in a market dramatically changed by the current US administration, suspicious activity reports (SARs), and more. ...

Company Profiles
2 September 2025

How Tiger Brokers Plays Into Asia's Wealth Growth Story

We talk to Tiger Brokers in Singapore about the global firm's TradingFront platform, its wealth management strategy, use of AI and where it thinks the sector is heading. ...

Strategy
1 September 2025

Swapping Singapore For London – Reflections From Lombard Odier's Vincent Magnenat

A senior private banker for Lombard Odier, working for many years in Singapore, has made the move to the rather more heavily taxed location of London, but one from which he sees plenty of opportunities for growt...

Asset Management
7 July 2025

Index Investing Has A "Reconstitution" Problem: How To Fix It

We talk to Dimensional Fund Advisors about why index investing in the conventional sense raises a number of challenges that aren't widely appreciated. ...

Tax
1 July 2025

Non-Dom Businesswoman Voices Anger, Plans Exit As UK Rules Change

We talk to a businesswoman, TV personality, academic and author about her annoyance, and frustrations, about the changes to the non-domicile system, and what she thinks needs to be done instead to attract tax re...

Asset Management
9 April 2025

The Asian EAM Opportunity: What Bank Custodians Say

Northern Trust, Deutsche Bank, Lombard Odier, Standard Chartered and RBC Wealth Management talk to this publication about the work they do with external asset managers in Singapore and the surrounding region. ...

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People Moves
14 October 2025

PGIM Real Estate Expands Further In Australia

The investment management house said its real estate investment activities included a sizeable amount in Australia. ...

Compliance
14 October 2025

The Source Of Wealth Verification Challenge – A Selection Of Recent Coverage

As the topic of verifying "source of wealth" becomes more prominent as a regulatory technology, compliance and competition concern in different jurisdictions, we set out a summary of the main stories that we've ...

Compliance
14 October 2025

Building The “3L” Infrastructure For Asia’s New Family Offices

The surge in the number of single-family offices in Singapore counts as a major success story, but all growth brings certain tasks, and compliance rules are significant. Singapore's central bank and regulator ha...

Compliance
13 October 2025

Bank of Singapore Deploys AI To Accelerate Source Of Wealth Verification

With “source of wealth” (SoW) tests becoming increasingly important in the fight against money laundering, using technology to help in the process is speeding it up. Slow onboarding times give the process fr...

Strategy
13 October 2025

Hong Kong Vaunts Wealth Management, Market Vigour – Report

A top official in Hong Kong has reiterated the city's free port status and the attractions for wealth management. ...

Investment Strategies
13 October 2025

Keep It Real: Seeking Safety, Returns Amid Currency Debasement, State Interference – Pictet

The Swiss wealth management firm examines the broad approaches investors should take at a time of an eroding dollar, a more activist and unpredictable set of government policies. ...