Airport Retailer Dufry’s Sales Rise By Over 50% In 2021, But Asia Contracts Sharply

Dufry’s World Duty Free store at London Heathrow terminal three. Dufry/World Duty Free Hemispheres clashed last year for the world’s biggest airport retailer, Dufry. Strong rebounds in the Ameri...

GameFi Is a New Game for Southeast Asia Players

To participate in P2E games, players require access to in-game NFTs, which can often be beyond their financial reach. By lending NFTs to its community members, commonly known as scholars, YGG is finan...

Asia crypto custodian Hex Trust completes SOC 2 certification » CryptoNinjas

Hex Trust, an Asia-based crypto-asset custodian, today announced that it has completed its SOC 2 – SOC for Service Organizations: Trust Services Criteria assessment, conducted by Deloitte. An auditing...

Is Malaysia The Next Crypto Capital Of Asia?

Things are going smoothly for Fusang, situated in the Labuan region of Malaysia. Labuan, established in 1990, is being pitched as Malaysia’s Hong Kong. This mid-shore jurisdiction is located inside th...

Top UBS Wealth Manager Targets $5 Trillion Held by Women in Asia

(Bloomberg) — When Amy Lo was offered a chance to head UBS Group AG’s Asia business for the super rich in 2010, her first answer was “no,” fearing it would be a risky step into the unknown. Most...

Stock Market Today: Dow Falls, Gold and Oil Surge, Bed Bath & Beyond Soars

Text size Gold prices marched higher Monday, as investors fled to havens amid declines in stocks. DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Stocks plunged Monday and investors sought havens as oil prices hit the hi...

Grab Stock Rebounds From Slump After Losses Widened

Text size A Grab Food delivery rider. Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg Shares of Grab Holdings rebounded Friday following a slump after the Singapore-based ride-sharing and food delivery company reported a wide...

77 New Hotels Around The World Opening This Spring

The outdoor heated pool at the new AC Hotel Melbourne Southbank, which is part of the Marriott … [+] Bonvoy program. AC Hotel Melbourne Southbank Spring is a time for new life as the flowers and...

Does Lukoil Use Russian Oil? Americans Are Boycotting Gas Stations.

Text size A petrol tanker delivers fuel stores to a Lukoil gas station. Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg First, it was vodka. Now it’s gas stations. Americans are calling for the boycott of some of Russia’s bes...

Alibaba Stock: The ‘Cheapest Company in the World’ Outside Russia

Text size Alibaba’s market value is under $300 billion, against about $1.5 trillion for its U.S. counterpart, Amazon.com. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding is probably “the cheapest com...

Ukrainian Bitcoin ATM producer, Intellogate, aims Asia expansion

Intellogate has installed 15 ATMs Intellogate installs 5,000 payment terminals a year All the machines can be customized to work in cashless, cash-in or cash-out and two-way mode Ukrainian Bitcoin ATM...

51 Job To Go Private, Asia Follows US Lower

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were mostly lower overnight after the US market decline yesterday. Growth equities, including internet stocks, saw positive performance on Tuesday,...

Barclays Expands Presence in Asia with New Appointments

To enhance its position in Asia, Barclays announced today that it has appointed Carrie Chen and Raymond Yu as Co-Heads of Investment Banking, Greater China. The newly appointed Co-Heads will facilitat...

Gemie Raises $3.8 Million To Build A Metaverse For A-List Celebrities In Asia

Gemie, a metaverse project describing itself as the future of fan experience, has raised $3.8 million from veteran crypto venture capitals led by Shima Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, and NGC Ventu...

Stock Market Today: Dow Tumbles With Ukraine in Focus, Oil Surges, Gold Pops

Stocks tumbled into the start of a new trading week, as the invasion of Ukraine and a wave of new sanctions on Russia weighed on investor sentiment. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4...

Russia’s Swift Exclusion Could See More Cyber War. 10 Stocks That Could Benefit.

Tough new financial sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine could lead to a surge in cyber attacks and spur investment in cybersecurity companies, according to research from broker and invest...

Ukraine Invasion Sends Chill Through TSMC Shares

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing saw its share slide Tuesday even as those of most other chipmakers rose. Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares dropped T...

Alibaba Reaches 1.3 Billion Annual Active Consumers, Russian Invasion In Ukraine Sends Asia Equities Lower

Key News Asian equities were a sea of red overnight as Russia began an offensive in Ukraine, citing support for breakaway eastern provinces, but launching airstrikes as far away as Kyiv. Alibaba repor...

Billionaire Peter Lim, Wellington College To Set Up International Schools In Southeast Asia

Established in 1859, the Wellington College campus in Crowthorne is about an hour’s drive west of … [+] London Courtesy of Wellington College Wellington College has partnered with Singapor...

Portugal’s EDP Renewables To Invest Over $7 Billion Across Asia Pacific After Buying Singapore’s Sunseap

A solar energy and wind turbine farm producing renewable green energy. getty EDP Renewables said Thursday it will invest as much as S$10 billion ($7.4 billion) in clean energy assets across Asia Pacif...

Semiconductor Stocks Soar, Asia Rebounds

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were mostly higher, rebounding from yesterday’s downdraft and ignoring US equities’ decline yesterday. Earnings season kicked off this week in Main...

Rio Tinto to Pay Its Highest-Ever Dividend After Posting Record Profit

Text size Rio Tinto says it will pay a total dividend for the year of $10.40 a share, including a special dividend of $2.47. Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021...

Rio Tinto to Pay $7.7 Billion of Dividends After Posting Record 2021 Profit

Text size Rio Tinto Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021 jumped 72% as prices of commodities soared and the world’s second-largest miner said it would reward sha...

Russia Turns Asia Markets Red Overnight

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asia was a sea of red overnight. Several negative headlines led to a very ugly night following an ugly day in Hong Kong on Monday. Investor’s concerns included Ru...

Stock Market Today: Overseas Stocks Fall as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer

Text size Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have agreed in principle to a summit in Europe. AFP via Getty Images Global stocks fell on Monday as tensions remained high over the Russian military buildup on ...

Big Bets on China Green Stocks Drag Down Top Asia Funds

(Bloomberg) — Asia’s best-performing equity funds of last year have now tumbled to near the bottom of the pile as their bets on China’s green energy rally turn sour. Most Read from Bloomberg Dri...

‘Ether Trade Asia’ Director, Nishid Wasnik Arrested

Law enforcements in India busted an organized cryptocurrency group that is accused of defrauded investors. It is estimated that the alleged scammers defrauded over Rs 400 million. Q4 2021 volumes have...

Philippines’ DoubleDragon Hotel Unit Bets On Post-Pandemic Tourism Recovery With Japan, Southeast Asia Expansion

A porter pushes a trolley laden with luggage at a Hotel 101 property, operated by DoubleDragon … [+] Properties Corp., in Manila, the Philippines, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. Photographer: Veejay Vil...

Malaysian Tycoon Tony Fernandes’ AirAsia To Launch Air Taxi Service Across Southeast Asia By 2025

Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia Group, reacts as he speaks during the Rise conference in Hong Kong, … [+] China, on July 9, 2019. Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg AirAsia Group—controlled by Malaysian tyco...

Asia Kate Dillon Plays The Good Millionaire

Asia Kate Dillon as Taylor Mason in ‘Billions’ on Showtime. Photo by Jeff Neumann for SHOWTIME. There are plenty of headlines about greedy billionaires that’ll make your head spin. But not...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Sea Stock After Reports India Bans Game

Text size Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of ARK Investment Management LLC Alex Flynn/Bloomberg Sea Ltd. shares were rebounding Tuesday, after plunging on Monday foll...

Ukraine/Russia Tension Leads To Risk-Off Night In Asia

China Last Night KraneShares Key News It might be Valentine’s Day, but we got no love overnight as Asian equities were risk-off on Ukraine/Russia fears though Australia and the Philippines were outlie...