Category: BUSINESS

More Chinese fintech firms vying to go public could choose Hong Kong as their listing venue, after the city’s first fintech IPO received a hot response from investors, and that Hong Kong has unique advantages compared with other global financial hubs ... ( read original story ...)

ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance climbed as much as 18.1 per cent on the morning of its first trading day in Hong Kong, pointing to ample appetite ... of China’s biggest internet groups. The business concept is resonating with investors ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong aims to diversify its mix of constituent company listings ... rapid growth of China’s fintech industry and has expressed confidence in Zhong An’s business growth and its management team. The global telecommunications and internet company ... ( read original story ...)

That compares with a 12 percent drop in research jobs at global investment banks tracked by McKinsey & Co. from 2011 through June ... change in careers and compensation,” said May Zhao, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Zhongtai Financial International ... ( read original story ...)

A report by consultancy McKinsey this time in 2016 said digitisation offers ... And at Huawei’s recent Operations Transformation Forum in Hong Kong, digital transformation (as you might expect) was a major theme. Bouke Hoving, KPN’s EVP of networks ... ( read original story ...)

Professor Joseph Fan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School has focused his research ... International management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has also begun assisting clients with executive talent development in Taiwan. ( read original story ...)

I am located in Hong Kong. Knowledge@Wharton: You’ve been involved in identifying ... Before Morgan Stanley Investment Management, I was in management consulting with McKinsey, and before that, with Monitor. Some of the projects I worked on at McKinsey ... ( read original story ...)

It is also an area where many companies need a major step-up, as was made clear at McKinsey's Apparel Sourcing Roundtable held in Hong Kong in October 2016. As one executive said at the event: "Most of us in apparel sourcing are way behind - we are far ... ( read original story ...)

Alibaba Group Holding, operator of the world’s largest online shopping platforms, wants to help foster more start-ups in Hong Kong with billion-dollar valuations, following the successful bet last year that put logistics company GoGoVan on the path to ... ( read original story ...)

Six companies have been chosen to receive a combined 10 million yuan in investments from the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund. These are Gobee.bike, CompareAsiaGroup, Origami Labs, Prenetics, Aqumon and Qupital. The announcement was made Thursday by ... ( read original story ...)

Six companies have been chosen to receive a combined HK$10 million in investments from the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund. These are Gobee.bike, CompareAsiaGroup, Origami Labs, Prenetics, Aqumon and Qupital. The announcement was made Thursday by the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s tourism and dependent industries were optimistic on Wednesday that an extended holiday on the mainland – dubbed “super golden week” – would translate into a boost in profits, with double the amount of tour groups expected and hotel ... ( read original story ...)

The Lifestyle Expo in Dubai is being held to foster business collaboration between the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as the rest of the Middle East-Africa (MEA) region, helping companies seize the enormous business ... ( read original story ...)

The decision to grant a spousal visa to a gay woman has been welcomed by business groups and banks and heralded as a mood change on LGBT rights in Hong Kong – but it won’t affect the legal entitlement of same-sex couples to other benefits, according to ... ( read original story ...)