British architect Norman Foster has already made his mark in Hong Kong thanks to the HSBC Tower and the city’s International Airport and his imprint is soon to get significantly larger after the government here announced his design had been accepted for the city’s HK$22.6 billion (two billion euro) West Kowloon Cultural District. (more…)...
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Giants Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs dominate the metropolis. But is there now room for entrepreneurs? The Hong Kong social enterprise scene is just getting going –and so is the startup movement. A cofounder of StartupsHK and BootHK , Jonathan Buford, tells Fast Company that it all comes down to one word: community. With...
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Hedge-Fund Maven Paulson Gets Hong Kong License (WSJ) Hedge-fund manager John Paulson , who made his name betting against subprime mortgages in 2007, is the latest high-profile investor to expand into Asia . Mr. Paulson, president of Paulson & Co ., received a license from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission to deal in...
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HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Piper Jaffray (NYSE: PJC), a leading middle-market investment bank and asset management firm serving clients in the U.S. and internationally, announced it has recently added four senior professionals to its Asia business across investment banking, sales and trading, and research. Tony Chan, managing director, will lead the consumer, industrial growth and clean...
