Singapore's central bank has said that the country is not in danger of being caught in a credit bubble that puts it or the banking system at any risk of crisis.
Popular Chinese actress Tang Wei fell victim to telecom fraud on Saturday in Shanghai, according to local police.
China should continue its current prudent monetary policy and maintain appropriate liquidity for the world's second-largest economy in 2014, the monetary-policy committee advising the People's Bank of China (PBOC, central bank) said Tuesday in a statement.
An Israeli court on Thursday pronounced a sentence of one year in prison on Dan Dankner, former chairman of Israel's largest bank Hapoalim Bank, for fraud while he served as the bank chief.
Banking multinational Standard Chartered said Monday that the offshore Renminbi market is regaining momentum following a soft patch in late second quarter and early third quarter, as its Renminbi index rose 2.4 percent in October from the previous month.
The Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone will come up with replicable financial measures within one year while strengthening management and control of financial risks, said a central bank official on Tuesday.
Japan's monetary base rose 52.5 percent in November from a year earlier to a record 189.72 trillion yen (about 1.84 trillion U.S. dollars) due to the central bank's ultra loose monetary policy aimed at beating Japan's prolonged deflation, according to local media Tuesday.
Australia's Westpac Banking Corporation on Monday posted a 14 percent increase in its full- year net profit, driven by a strong performance across all its operating division.
People living in nine provincial-level regions, including Beijing and Guangdong, can now look up their personal credit reports using an online inquiry service.
China's central bank on Friday announced the launch of Loan Prime Rate (LPR), a new benchmark lending rate for commercial banks designed to make interest rates more market-oriented.
Despite media reports about an interbank liquidity shortage, China's central bank on Wednesday said liquidity in the money market is adequate.
Xu Wanfa, 75, a patient in Xi'an, hospitalized for cancer and other illnesses, was rushed to a bank in an ambulance and carried in on a stretcher to the counter to change his PIN.
A Chinese banking regulator has revised the rules for the operation of rural financial institutions in order to step up supervision of small and medium-sized rural banks.
Russia's second largest commercial bank, VTB, on Wednesday denied allegations that it serves accounts of the Syrian government.
China's interest rate reforms entered a new stage as central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said that the country is ready to free deposit interest rates.
China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Monday the economy will not post persistent slowdowns, indicating the bank is ready to free the long-awaited deposit interest rates to fully liberalize the financial market.
Two former JPMorgan Chase & Co. traders were charged Wednesday over last year's "London Whale" scandal, which cost the bank 6.2 billion dollars, Federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
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