Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group top stories

• Hartwell joins NAB for corps and FIG role

  

  Tylor Hartwell is starting at National Australia Bank, after leaving Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation earlier this year.

  • 20 Feb 2019

• SMBC Nikko’s fixed income sales and trading head makes CFO switch

  

  Isabel Mahony, who had been head of fixed income sales and trading EMEA and Asia ex-Japan at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets, has left to the firm to join children's magazine Scoop as chief financial officer.

  • 21 Jan 2019

• China market round-up: FX reserves climb in December, renminbi globalisation index dips in November, domestic CPI inflation moderates

  

  In this round-up, China’s foreign exchange reserves rebounded slightly for the second month in a row, Standard Chartered’s index for international RMB usage fell again, and China's consumer price index (CPI) inflation decelerated at the close of 2018.

  • 11 Jan 2019

• The week in renminbi: Abe’s visit harvests agreements with China, HKMA renews nine offshore PLP licenses, Singapore takes steps to make infrastructure bankable

  

  China and Japan confirm details of currency swaps and plans to invest more in third party markets, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) renews the license of nine authorised institutions as Primary Liquidity Providers (PLPs) for the CNH market in Hong Kong and Singapore sets up new government agency to bridge the funding gap facing Asia’s infrastructure projects.

  • 29 Oct 2018

• Local investors keep Ford’s ABS on track

  

  Ford Automotive Finance (China) started the year in China’s asset-backed securities market by selling a Rmb4bn (Rmb618.3m) deal on Thursday. The deal was open to foreign investors, but onshore demand formed the core support for Ford’s sale, sources on the deal told GlobalRMB.

  • 19 Jan 2018