Hong Kong's leader says he will "fully implement" a ruling by Beijing which effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from the city's legislature after they deliberately misread their oaths of office. Video provided by AFP Newslook China took ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong regulator says investors can expect to see more IPO sponsor probes
HONG KONG Nov 9 Hong Kong's top markets enforcement official said ... The disclosure came days after Swiss bank UBS also said the SFC is investigating its role as sponsor of certain unnamed stock market listings in the city. (Reporting by Michelle Price ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Country Retail Banking Market Snapshot Research Report by Radiant Insights
“Retail Banking Country Snapshot: Hong Kong 2016” reviews the retail banking sector in Hong Kong, with a particular focus on the current account, savings, mortgage, and personal loans markets Hong Kong’s retail financial services landscape is very ... ( read original story ...)
Former Bank of America Banker Found Guilty of Murder in Hong Kong
HONG KONG—A former Bank of America Corp. banker charged with the brutal killing of two Indonesian women was found guilty of murder in a case that laid bare the divisions in Hong Kong’s foreign community between elite expat finance professionals and an ... ( read original story ...)
Eight former Hong Kong bankers now making their mark in fintech
But fintech also faces serious challenges in Hong Kong. A February report from EY ranked it last among seven main fintech hubs around the world. And as we noted in September, family and economic pressures mean too many banking professionals fear moving ... ( read original story ...)
How Hong Kong killer Rurik Jutting went from prep school and Cambridge to cocaine binges, violent porn and a place in criminal history
Now a financier with the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he sported a bloated face and lank hair having been transferred from London to Hong Kong, where he spent his time in the company of young Asian sex workers. He would not be the first British banker to ... ( read original story ...)
Banker Convicted of Hong Kong Murders — WSJ
Former Bank of America trader is sentenced to life for killing two women By Julie Steinberg in Hong Kong and Jenny Strasburg in London A former Bank of America Corp. banker charged with the brutal killing of two Indonesian women was found guilty of murder ... ( read original story ...)
Here’s where 12 big global banks in Hong Kong are actually HIRING
To find out we trawled through the Hong Kong careers websites of 12 major US and European banks and allocated their advertised roles into the nine broad sectors in the table below. We then converted these job categories into a percentage of each bank’s ... ( read original story ...)
Former Bank of America Banker Found Guilty Of Two Murders, Jailed For Life
Two years ago we reported the shocking story of then-29 year old Hong Kong-based, Bank of America banker Rurik Jutting, who was arrested in connection with the grisly murder of two prostitutes. One of the two victims had been hidden in a suitcase on a ... ( read original story ...)
Thousands protest China’s intervention in Hong Kong
Thousands have taken to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against an anti-independence legal intervention by China’s government. Hundreds of lawyers and law students, all dressed in black, marched silently through Hong Kong on Tuesday in protest at the ... ( read original story ...)
Coked up Brit banker guilty of murdering 2 women in Hong Kong
In this Monday, Nov. 10. 2014, file photo taken through tinted glass, Rurik Jutting, a British banker, is escorted in a prison bus to a court in Hong Kong. Rurik was convicted of murder Tuesday for killing two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, torturing one ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong lawyers, politicians fear slippery slope after Beijing intervention
Before the intervention by China's parliament on Monday, a Hong Kong court was already considering whether to bar newly elected lawmakers Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-hing, whose swearing-in ceremony was aborted after they mispronounced the oath in a way ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Stocks Drop in Volatile Trade Amid U.S. Election Count
Hong Kong stocks slumped as investors assessed results in the U.S. presidential election, with Republican Donald Trump holding a slim lead in Florida. The offshore yuan traded near a record low. The Hang Seng Index slid 1.3 percent as of 10:11 a.m. local ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Marches Continue Against Chinese 'Intervention'
The protests are the latest in a growing division between China and Hong Kong over the city state's "one country, two systems” laws. More than a thousand lawyers staged a silent protest Hong Kong Tuesday after China intervened against two pro ... ( read original story ...)