Bank of the Pacific

April 3, 2024

Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability

...Singapore has given international banks an unusual series of top-level briefings on geopolitics as it seeks to reassure them that the financial hub can remain stable and neutral at a time of rising tension...

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Global Economy

When will the Bank of Japan next raise interest rates?

...The Bank of Japan is likely to hold off from raising interest rates next week but investors expect the central bank to outline its response to rising inflationary pressures caused by the yen’s decline....

April 21, 2024

Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

FT ranking: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2024

...are set to expand at one of the lowest rates since the 1960s, according to the World Bank....

March 13, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

It’s central bank week!

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 18, 2024

UK economy

Bracing for the Bank of England’s forecasting review

...Meanwhile, the Bank of England MPC consists of nine policy makers and a common staff....

April 5, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Transcript

Transcript: Global threats — contrasting views in Europe, Asia and the Pacific

...They have common border and that’s another reason why even sitting in the Indo-Pacific you may have more of your eyes on China, but in some ways this is all part of the same picture....

February 29, 2024

Banks

The $1tn ‘hold-to-maturity’ sleight-of-accounting

...Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset declines, banks used accounting reclassification to diminish the impact of interest rate increases on book capital....

April 3, 2024

News in-depthBank of England

Ben Bernanke’s brutal verdict on the Bank of England

...Ben Bernanke was brutally honest about the failings of the Bank of England’s economic modelling when he published a long-awaited review of its forecasting processes on Friday....

April 12, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The Bank of Japan’s tricky path to normalisation

...But on Tuesday, after eight years in the negative, the Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda pulled it off in smooth style....

March 20, 2024

Indian business & finance

India’s central bank bans Kotak Mahindra from signing up digital customers

...Governor Shaktikanta Das warned banks to avoid “all forms of exuberance” after the RBI ordered lenders in November to increase the amount of capital they must have to mitigate against riskiness in personal...

April 24, 2024

Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

South Korean virtual reality fishing game reels in 1mn users

...The global popularity of the VR game has taken DUG to 43rd in this year’s FT ranking of high-growth companies in the Asia-Pacific region....

April 3, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

Bank of Japan ditches negative rates

...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...

March 20, 2024

Indonesian economy

Indonesia raises interest rates to support sliding rupiah

...The Bank of Japan said last week that it could raise interest rates if the impact of a weakened yen became “too big to ignore”, while policymakers in China and South Korea have expressed concerns about the...

April 24, 2024

Bank of Japan

Will the Bank of Japan finally raise interest rates?

...Kate Duguid Will the Bank of England hint at interest rate cuts?...

March 17, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan

The bank argument on the Basel III endgame is bunk

...In the wake of three of the largest bank failures in US history a year ago, the US Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are all pushing...

March 23, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The Bernanke review is only a starting point

...Few central banks have emerged from the past three years of inflation fighting with the same credibility they had before. The Bank of England has had a particularly hard time....

April 12, 2024

LexBanks

More Chinese banks need to take a hard stance on easy loans Premium

...With China’s property crisis in its fourth year, much of the burden of making additional loans to troubled, high-risk developers has been shouldered by the four biggest local banks: CCB, Bank of China, Agricultural...

April 8, 2024

Inside BusinessCheng Leng

Chinese banks’ global expansion faces new hurdles

...This episode mirrors the broader challenges facing the offshore operations of Chinese banks....

April 8, 2024

Central banks

What happens when a central bank runs out of money?

...Macro types simply love to chat about the prospect of central banks running out of money....

April 8, 2024

Instant InsightRobin Harding

The big test is yet to come for the Bank of Japan

...Since the BoJ is unlikely to raise rates much, action on the other side of the Pacific is more likely to narrow the yawning gulf in yields between US Treasuries and Japanese government bonds....

March 19, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Maria Sharapova’s guide to Santa Barbara

...There are always lots of motorcycles parked outside and live music playing. It’s rough and rustic, but that’s the vibe – it sets the tone of a road trip....

January 5, 2024

Markets InsightRussell Napier

China is moving towards full monetary independence

...This intervention funded the purchase of developed world government debt securities, primarily US Treasuries, through the creation of local currency bank reserves....

April 18, 2024

UK economy

Unwinding British QE may end up costing £100bn. Could that have been avoided?

...This is not a proposal to weaken the independence of the Bank of England or modify its objectives....

March 26, 2024

UK economy

The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers

...The Bank of England’s role is rarely visible, by design. The Bank is supposed to stay out of fiscal affairs....

February 29, 2024

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