US sanctions against certain mainland Chinese companies might hurt millions of retail investors and pensioners in Hong Kong after Tracker Fund, the city's biggest and most popular exchange-traded ... ( read original story ...)
Sustainable opportunities for corporations in Hong Kong and around the world
Demand for sustainable finance has continued to grow exponentially across all market sectors in 2020 despite the strains posed by COVID-19. ( read original story ...)
Elastic Bands And Slingshots Define Banking Trends For 2021
Accenture's view on how much the future of the banking industry will radically change because of the pandemic versus how much we will revert to pre-COVID ways. This is a snapshot of the top 10 retail ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong stocks end higher on robust mainland inflows
Hong Kong stocks ended higher on Monday despite latest tensions between China and the United States, as mainland investors continued to hunt bargains via the Stock Connect. ** The Hang Seng index rose ... ( read original story ...)
Businesses in Hong Kong want law and order: Commerce Secretary
International businesses in Hong Kong see law and order as key for investing, a city government official said on Monday, in response to concern about the impact of a sweeping national security law on ... ( read original story ...)
Hang Seng Indexes Under Pressure as Funds Avoid Chinese Stocks
Hong Kong’s index provider is facing increasing pressure to comply with a U.S. ban on investments in Chinese companies that populate its benchmarks. ( read original story ...)
HSBC Joins MioTech’s Series B Financing Round
PRNewswire/ -- MioTech, the AI-based sustainability data and technology provider, announced today that HSBC has invested in the company in an additional financing round to its Series B, further ... ( read original story ...)
Breakingviews – Becoming a bank would shrink but not squash Ant
Becoming a bank will shrink Ant. Regulators are set to treat Jack Ma's financial group more like a regular Chinese lender. Though it has enough capital to support its existing online credit business, ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC’s Wong to be first woman CEO of Singapore bank
SINGAPORE, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Singapore's second-largest lender, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) OCBC.SI, appointed Deputy President Helen Wong as group CEO, succeeding Samuel Tsien who is retiring ... ( read original story ...)
RPT-South Korea’s IPO market poised for record year on booming retail demand
S.Korea IPO market to be busiest ever in 2021 -bankers, analysts * To raise as much as 20 trln won in IPOs, a record high -analysts * More allocation to retail investors to boost demand -analysts * ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC shareholders ask bank to cut fossil-fuel lending exposure
A group of HSBC Holdings Plc shareholders have filed a resolution urging the bank to cut its support to the fossil-fuel industry. ( read original story ...)
US banks to delist hundreds of HK-listed products under Trump rules
JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are set to delist 500 structured products listed on Hong Kong’s stock exchange, as the fallout from President Donald Trump’s executive order barring ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong finance minister lays out plan to maintain or even boost public spending in next month’s budget, despite mammoth deficit
Paul Chan says he plans to maintain spending levels to protect living standards as coronavirus ravages the economy, despite stark decline in government’s finances. ( read original story ...)
Vietnam to be among top growth performers again in 2021, says HSBC
Vietnam posted the fastest growth in Asia in 2020 and will once again be among the most outstanding performers in the region this year, according to the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). ( read original story ...)