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Standard Chartered provides first microfinance loan in Southeast Asia

By Chito Santiago
Standard Chartered Bank extends USD1.5 million microfinance loan to CARD Bank in the Philippines

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3 Indian oil firms, Petronas secure major oil blocks in Venezuela

By Chito Santiago
ONGC Videsh, Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India – as well as Repsol YPF of Spain and Petronas of Malaysia have been selected to develop major oil blocks in Venezuela

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Nomura appoints new heads of investment banking for the Americas and Asia

By Chito Santiago
Colin Banfield and Patrick Schmitz-Morkramer will become joint heads of investment banking for Asia ex-Japan succeeding Glenn Schiffman who is named head of investment banking for the Americas, effective February 1 2010. Tomoko Iino, who previously led investment banking for the Americas, will...

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A year after: A different landscape

By Rodney Diola
The transaction banking business in the Asia-Pacific region has not been immune from the crisis. This has opened the doors for many domestic banks in the region to join the fray of transaction banking customers and aggressively build their franchise

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Strong demand from Asian investors fuels appetite for Asian bonds (Part 2)

07 Dec 2009 By The Asset
Aniruddh Gupta, managing director and global head of CM solutions, Standard Chartered Bank, talks about how Asian market liquidity and investor demand for local currency bonds surpassed that from the US and Europe in 2009. Gupta delivered the chairman’s address during the 4th Asian Bond Markets Summit organized by The Asset Forum in association with the ADB in Singapore on November 24 2009.

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