Category: BUSINESS

“The co-founders all have experience doing business in Asia, and we felt Hong Kong was the right place for us. The market is fast developing and we wanted to get in early and try to shape it.” An ICO is a means by which companies developing projects ... ( read original story ...)

Her career highlight was spending nearly a month in Asia covering the booming gaming industry there in 2009, where she crossed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Macau on a ferry ... a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a former Wharton professor, was ... ( read original story ...)

That compares with a 12 per cent 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 ...)

The steady growth of mainland Chinese clients who come to Hong Kong to buy insurance products has boosted the business of FTLife Insurance, according to the company’s Asia CEO, Lennard Yong. The company, one of Hong Kong’s largest life insurers ... ( read original story ...)

While large financial institutions have made progress applying smart technologies like cloud, biometrics, and big data analytics to their risk management functions, 66 per cent of executives say skills deficiencies are impeding the effectiveness of the ... ( read original story ...)

(Stock Code: 1087) CHANGE OF COMPANY SECRETARY, AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE, SERVICE AGENT AND PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN HONG KONG CHANGE OF COMPANY SECRETARY, AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE AND SERVICE AGENT The board of directors (the "Board") of InvesTech ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s efforts to carve itself a niche in the rapidly evolving world of mixed martial arts have received a boost with a new promotional organisation to be launched using the city as its base. “We want to build a sports media company and we want to ... ( read original story ...)

In another ambitious move to increase Sharjah’s depth and reach of foreign investment, some of the emirate’s most influential economic drivers met with trade delegates, officials and businesspeople from Hong Kong recently, to present the unique ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks jumped 25 per cent in the first three quarters of this year, thanks to Tencent’s 78 per cent increase that accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the gains in the Hang Seng Index, making it the top performer among the world’s major stock ... ( read original story ...)

Reuters/Bobby Yip HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong on Thursday demanded full democracy outside government headquarters, speaking out against China's suppression of civil liberties on the third anniversary of a major pro-democracy ... ( read original story ...)

STX Entertainment, the Burbank film and television studio behind the comedy “Bad Moms,” is moving closer to a planned initial public offering in Hong Kong. The 3-year-old studio is expected to raise about $500 million on the Hong Kong stock exchange ... ( read original story ...)

The greater China region that encompasses mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan is becoming increasingly important in the world of business education. Many schools have received seals of approval from AACSB and Equis, the two leading global business ... ( read original story ...)

HKUST Business School’s full-time MBA—ranked among the best in Asia by the Financial Times—stood out. After completing her MBA in 2013, Andrea stayed in Hong Kong, working her way up the corporate ladder. Today, she’s director of marketing and ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)