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Meet Ricky Sandhu Founder and Chairman of Urban-Air Port and who is the CEO of Six Miles Across London Ltd (small.) a group of infrastructure-as-a-service businesses which includes urban-Air Port Ltd. Hyundai Motor Group, Coventry City Council and the UK...

Andy Lau | Co-Founder & Chairman – Redsip, Inc. Andy is a serial-entrepreneur, technologist and investor with strong strategic connections in APAC and Silicon Valley. Andy has founded a number of successful tech businesses and advised numerous US companies entering...

King & Wood Mallesons advised the Bank of Queensland (BOQ) in its A$1.325 billion (US$1.05 billion) acquisition of digital rival ME bank and the capital raising needed to fund the deal, while Australian firm Arnold Bloch Leibler advised the smaller bank....

Guotai Junan International Holdings broke a two-year absence from the dollar bond market this week to raise $400m. The Chinese securities brokerage last sold a dollar deal in March 2019. The $500m 3.875% trade is set to mature next year....

Lippo Group's OUE Lippo Healthcare, or OUELH, the healthcare subsidiary of Singapore-listed property developer and owner OUE Limited, has announced a plan to convert existing shareholder loans and interests worth $144 million into perpetual securities in a strategic move to strengthen...

The fund is listed on the LSE. Richard has over 30 years of stockmarket experience and is one of the UK’s foremost commentators on market matters and a regular contributor for the BBC (BBC News Channel, Wake Up to Money...

If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you’d best grab an Irish passport. A new study has ranked the Irish passport as the second best one in the world for business men and women. It shares the honours with...

BitMEX Plans to Add Crypto Spot Trading, Custody Services The expansion plans came under the new leadership of Alexander Höptner. Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is considering to expand its offerings by adding spot trading, brokerage and custody as its three...

100x, the owner of the BitMEX cryptocurrency trading platform, has hired auditing veteran Stephan Lutz as its new chief financial officer. According to an announcement Thursday, Lutz will join the group in May to take charge of financial growth, business...

Laurie Chow – Chief Executive Officer Laurie is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vega Global. He humbly started his career in 1980 as a sales executive selling projectors to different schools in Hong Kong. With his ambition and...

We sat down with aviation boss & PBEC Board of Director Diana Chou again after a year like no other. As the daughter of the Hong Kong tycoon who founded Dragonair, Chou had a strong connection with aviation when she...

  Asia’s premier Tech enables water services Company headquartered in India has joined PBEC. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Parag Agarwal who is currently based out of Dubai due to the Covid pandemic. Dr. Parag is a major advocate...

Steelman Partners and Gensler designing 75 hectare resort near Angkor Wat NagaCorp has announced that it has signed a 50 year lease with the Cambodian government for a 75 hectare (187.5 acre) property near the UNESCO World Heritage site of...

Aboitiz Power Corporation, through its subsidiary AP Renewables Incorporated (APRI), will be supplying the renewable energy (RE) needs of Wells Fargo International Solutions LLC in the Philippines. In a statement on Monday, March 1, Aboitiz Power said it will deliver...

Fintech companies in Asia Pacific attracted USD11.6 billion across 565 deals from venture capital, private equity and M&A in 2020, compared to USD 16.8 billion in 2019, reaching a six-year low, as the pandemic saw a decline in investment into emerging markets like Southeast Asia, particularly in...

Featured article by PBEC Member : Joanna Caen PraxisIFM Managing Director Hong Kong  Email: Joanna.caen@praxisIFM.com At first glance it may seem strange that many high net worth, and even more ultra-high net worth, individuals and families choose to own their...