Hong Kong’s finance minister is set to face a barrage of questions, criticism and scepticism over the city’s housing, health and welfare policies during a live internet session on Sunday afternoon. Fi... ( read original story ...)
Redefining Banking
“The future of retail banking is about merging banking into customers’ daily lives,” she says. Even though Hong Kong is currently one of the world’s foremost financial hubs, Mrs Kan says the city will ... ( read original story ...)
Maybank Shuts Hong Kong, China Institutional Research
Malayan Banking Bhd., Malaysia’s biggest lender, is closing its Hong Kong and China institutional equity research business to focus on Southeast Asian operations. Maybank Kim Eng, the investment banki... ( read original story ...)
Malayan Banking Berhad : Maybank shuts HK, China institutional research biz, to focus on ASEAN
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The investment banking arm of Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), Malaysia's largest bank by assets, is closing its institutional research business in Hong Kong and China as part o... ( read original story ...)
Maybank ceases HK equities research operations
KUALA LUMPUR: Malayan Banking Bhd, Malaysia’s biggest lender, has ceased its Hong Kong equities research operations as the investment bank focuses on its core Asean market. Maybank Kim Eng said the in... ( read original story ...)
Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges seek reverse mergers in Hong Kong as IPO plans of bitcoin mining rig makers falter
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges are looking at reverse mergers in Hong Kong, as hopes dim for bitcoin mining rig makers’ plans to go public in the city. The back-door listing efforts have ... ( read original story ...)
China Overseas Land borrows HK$30b
The banks include DBS Bank, Agricultural Bank of China (1288), BOC Hong Kong (2388), Bank of Communicatio... China Overseas Land and Investment (0688) raised a 5-year HK$30 billion syndicated loan fro... ( read original story ...)
Banking on a FinTech Future
ZHONG Xiangqun, Chief Operating Officer of Bank of China (Hong Kong) (BOCHK), believes we have entered a golden age of FinTech. “Recent advances in technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), b... ( read original story ...)
Boc Hong Kong (BHKLY) & Westpac Banking (WBK) Head to Head Comparison
0.2% of Boc Hong Kong shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of Westpac Banking shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication t... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong exchange head clarifies listing rules as IPO hopes dim for cryptocurrency giant Bitmain
Companies seeking to go public in Hong Kong should show consistency in their business models, according to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) chief executive Charles Li Xiaojia, who was speaking ... ( read original story ...)
Commentary: Hong Kong sort of escapes the eye of the trade war
(Photo: AFP/Getty Images North America/Justin Sullivan) More importantly, any slowdown of the Chinese economy would reduce demand for Hong Kong’s banking and finance, professional and logistics servic... ( read original story ...)
Don’t Break Your Hong Kong Piggy Bank, CLSA Cautions Investors
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investors should focus on "limiting losses rather than chasing large gains" in the Year of the Pig, which will be a roller-coaster year for Hong Kong's stock market ... ( read original story ...)
Macau, Beijing police arrest 37 in crackdown on illicit banking
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police in Macau and mainland ... They seized 32 illegal converted point of sale terminals as well bank cards and computers. Police said the criminal group started operations ... ( read original story ...)
Dentons Lawyer Wired $2.5 Million to Scam Bank Account in Elaborate Con
Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM The Canadian arm of global legal giant Dentons fell prey to a sophisticated scam that resulted in the inadvertent transfer of $2.5 million in client funds to a fraudster ... ( read original story ...)