Day: March 12, 2018

Even by its own elevated standards, Noble Group had a busy week in late November. On November 20, several branches of the Singapore state announced they were investigating the troubled commodity trader for suspected false and misleading statements and breaches of disclosure requirements. Paul Brough,Noble Group Noble’s $3.5 billion debt restructuring, which has been under …

Asia commodity traders: What’s at stake with the Noble restructuring?Read More

Banks have made large headcount cuts over the last five to 10 years, driven by the financial crash and regulatory changes, says Grant Goodband, client manager at Thoughtonomy. Grant Goodband,Thoughtonomy Thoughtonomy is a technology company developing robotic workers for robotic process automation (RPA).  While these external factors cannot be controlled, banks can decide how they …

Robots are not a threat to bankers, say tech firmsRead More

Hillhouse is the figurehead of homegrown Chinese private equity, although as an institution it is somewhat unusual and owes at least as much to the patient techniques of the Yale Investments Office as it does to mainland entrepreneurial zest.  Hillhouse, under CEO Lei Zhang, is the name everyone’s talking about in Hong Kong and Beijing: …

Hillhouse Capital: The alarming growth of Chinese private equityRead More