Run by Prof. Ronald Li, director of the Ming-Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine at the Karolinska Institute's Hong Kong campus, the company grows human heart tissue from stem cells that can be used instead of lab animals for drug development. ( read original story ...)
More fintech firms seen to launch Hong Kong IPOs
The head of JP Morgan’s global investment banking division in China said more Chinese financial technology firms may follow Zhong An Online Property and Casualty Insurance’s lead in launching initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong. Houston Huang ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s SFC unveils regtech sandbox
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has launched its SFC Regulatory Sandbox to provide a place for firms to test out their ideas. Like other regulators, the SFC says: “For the sake of market integrity and better investor protection ... ( read original story ...)
Bank watchdogs in final reform effort as fatigue sets in
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has recommended delaying new global bank trading book rules, a step Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore are also taking - and the European Union is resisting, potentially fragmenting standards for a period. ( read original story ...)
BEA Union becomes first Hong Kong fund house to sell its products in Switzerland
BEA Union Investment Management has become the first Hong Kong-based fund house to gain approval to sell its products in Switzerland under a new cross-border trading scheme. “Switzerland is well known for its wealth management and private banking services. ( read original story ...)
Mark Tucker wastes no time choosing next HSBC chief
“Retail banking is good when it’s deep like in Hong Kong or the UK, but not when you are spread too thinly. He is likely to look at this with a slightly sharper pencil.” HSBC has done more than 80 disposals in seven years, exiting consumer banking ... ( read original story ...)
Stock Picker Who Snared a 7,000% Hong Kong Return Eyes His Next Win
He’s betting it will benefit from increasing demand for credit just as European bank stocks begin to shed the gloom that depressed valuations in the aftermath of the financial crisis. A U.K. legal dispute hanging over Deutsche Pfandbriefbank’s stock ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Airport Needs US$8.8 Billion Debt for Third Runway
... Authority Hong Kong needs to raise HK$69 billion (US$8.8 billion) to fund the runway, and should consider selling bonds and tapping the loan market, according to a report by its financial consultant HSBC Holdings Plc. Asia's busiest international ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong prepares for a new era of ‘smart banking’
The governor of Hong Kong's central bank has spelled out a series of up-and-coming reforms - from the introduction of faster payments to open API standards - intended to prepare the territory for a revolution in retail banking services. In a speech to a ... ( read original story ...)
Renaissance Capital’s Q2 2017 Global IPO Market Review
Global IPO proceeds totaled $33.4 billion in the 3Q17 ... dollar deals like NetLink Trust in Singapore ($1.7 billion), ZhongAn Online Insurance in Hong Kong ($1.5 billion) and SBI Life in India ($1.3 billion). Europe took second place with 31% of proceeds ... ( read original story ...)
ZhongAn Insurance IPO Draws Attention To Low Valuation Of Fanhua
Both companies are likely to continue growing much faster than the sector. The Hong Kong IPO of ZhongAn Insurance (HK:6060) (see China's ZhongAn Online jumps 15pc in trading debut) has drawn attention to Fanhua (FANH) which has been listed in New York ... ( read original story ...)
Listings dry up in weakest IPO market since 2012
which had been pencilled in as a likely IPO. Alinta Energy's float, which could have raised about $4 billion, was also scrapped in March after it was sold to a Hong Kong buyer. Zip Industries pulled its listing plan in May, while Wesfarmers canned the ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC takes tech route to end trade paper trail
Come 10.30am workers at HSBC’s suburban Hong Kong offices are to be found processing a freshly-delivered document deluge: prying out staples, tallying copies and endlessly slotting them into files. Forget fintech — this corner of banking in one of the ... ( read original story ...)
Hang Seng slips 1.3pc
to HK$341.60 and China Construction Bank (0939) was down 1.66 percent to HK$6.51. Insurer AIA (1299) lost 1.17 percent to HK$59.20. China Resources Land (... Stocks in Hong Kong and China tumbled today. The benchmark Hang Seng Index shed 380.19 points ... ( read original story ...)