Forbes said it has entered into "exclusive discussions" with an investor consortium for the sale of the company. The news comes less than a year after the ...
Hong Kong approves first virtual asset trading licences since 2020 in battle for crypto crown with Singapore
Hash Blockchain, a subsidiary of HashKey Group, has received SFC approval to operate a virtual asset trading platform for professional investors The move comes on the heels of the Hong Kong government ...
HK banking summit a post-pandemic sales pitch, but is anyone buying?
Hundreds of top bankers will arrive in Hong Kong this week to hear the government's sales pitch that, despite lingering pandemic curbs and entrenched United States-China tensions, the city is once ...
Temasek-Backed Innovex Refiles for Hong Kong IPO
Innovex Medical Co., a medical devices maker backed by Singapore state-owned investor Temasek Holdings, is continuing with plans for an initial public offering in Hong Kong to raise funds to develop ...
Alibaba, Nio Fall: Hong Kong Stocks Weaken As China COVID-19 Cases Rise, US Midterm Results Eyed
Hong Kong stocks opened in the red on Wednesday, with the benchmark Hang Seng losing over 1%, as investors and traders await the results of the U.S. midterm elections and China’s producer prices ...
StanChart CEO Sees ‘Big Boost’ When HK-China Border Reopens
Standard Chartered Plc’s Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters is bullish on the bank’s China business despite the geopolitical tensions and sees things picking up when travel between Hong Kong and the ...
Standard Chartered CEO praises Hong Kong on virtual-asset trading moves, calls on city to ‘scrap’ all travel curbs
CEO Bill Winters says the bank will look seriously at virtual-asset trading for retail customers following last week's announcement of government support 'Scrap the whole thing,' Winters says about ...
Hong Kong’s big ‘coming-in’ party points to a city losing its lustre
The event – a three-day Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit sponsored by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city’s de-facto central bank – certainly looked the part. It bore all the ...
China’s Second-Largest Chipmaker Poised for $2.5 Billion IPO in Shanghai
Chinese chip manufacturer Hua Hong Semiconductor Ltd has received regulatory approval for an 18 billion yuan ($2.5 billion) IPO in Shanghai, according to a filing published late on Friday on the Hong ...
Hong Kong: Giant leap in share price for Giant Biogene IPO
Shares in Giant Biogene jumped sharply on the company’s November 4 listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company priced its IPO at HK$24.3 per share and traded as high as HK$31.95 Monday ...
HSBC CEO Noel Quinn vows to help reboot Hong Kong’s economy as city reopens for business after Covid restrictions
HSBC will do whatever it takes to help Hong Kong’s economy recover, says CEO Noel Quinn, adding that relaxation of quarantine measures will put the city back on the international business community’s ...
Easing Hong Kong’s COVID Curbs, Opening China Border Top Bankers’ Wish List -HKMA Chief
Global executives want to see a further easing of Hong Kong's COVID-19 restrictions and it's crucial for the China border to reopen so the financial hub can reconnect with the mainland, the head of ...
Covid-scarred Hong Kong seeks return to normality in rowdy Sevens
For some of those in the raucous South Stand at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament this weekend, it was if the city’s past three years of Covid restrictions and political crackdowns had never ...
Hong Kong leader John Lee shrugs off absence of threee top bankers from key financial summit, insists city ‘full of vigour and energy’
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has shrugged off concerns over three top bankers pulling out of the city’s first mega financial summit since the Covid-19 pandemic began, as he struck a cautiously ...