Hong Kong Monetary Authority executives and banking officials said during a media briefing on Monday. Hong Kong is Asia’s fourth largest bond issuance centre after Japan, mainland China and South Korea. Helen Wong Pik-kuen, chief executive for Greater ... ( read original story ...)
StanChart to pursue Hong Kong virtual banking licence
Standard Chartered plans to apply for a virtual banking licence in Hong Kong, the first global bank to announce its intention to do so and a sign the London-based emerging markets lender aims to launch a new banking business in the city. The introduction ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Xiaomi books $1 billion quarterly loss ahead of blockbuster IPO
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi booked a first-quarter net loss of 7 billion yuan ($1.09 billion) ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering. That compares with a net loss of 43.89 billion yuan for the whole of 2017, according ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC to invest $15-17 billion as strategy swings from shrink to grow
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC will invest $15-17 billion in areas including technology and its core Asian markets of Hong Kong and China as it swings from a strategy of cost-cutting to growth, new Chief Executive John Flint said on Monday. The announcement is ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered says it will apply to operate a virtual bank in Hong Kong
Hong Kong and London-listed Standard Chartered Bank plans to apply for a virtual bank licence, making it the first traditional bank seeking a licence locally to operate purely online without physical branches. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority last month ... ( read original story ...)
Asian Private Banker/Julius Baer 2018 IAM Report: HK & SG IAMs hit US$91.5 billion in AUM, DPM penetration rate of 71%
penetration rate of Asia’s IAMs exceeds 65% — well above private banks’ average of approximately 8% HONG KONG, June 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Asian Private Banker, in collaboration with leading Swiss private bank Julius Baer, has released its report ... ( read original story ...)
PNB fraud case: Nirav Modi’s five dummy firms in Hong Kong whose owners earned Rs 8,000 got Rs 8,000 crore LoUs
Owners and directors of at least five Hong Kong firms that allegedly received about Rs 8,270 crore from Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) issued by Punjab National Bank, on behalf of jeweller Nirav Modi, used to earn only between Rs 8,000 and Rs 30,000 every ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s health care expertise can unlock potential of ‘Greater Bay Area’, says former financial secretary
In the not-so-distant future, Hongkongers will be able to live out their golden years in Zhuhai, Shenzhen – or any of the nine mainland cities within the “Greater Bay Area” in southern China, all within a short drive from Hong Kong. They could drive ... ( read original story ...)
Xiaomi gets IPO nod from HK exchange, say sources
Offering could become world's largest first-time share sale since Alibaba's listing BEIJING • Xiaomi has won Hong Kong stock exchange approval for its planned initial public offering (IPO), which would be the first listing in the city with weighted ... ( read original story ...)
Ant Financial raises $14 billion in world’s largest-ever single fundraising
Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, China International Capital Corp, CITIC Securities, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisors to Ant. Reporting by Adam Jourdan in SHANGHAI, Cate Cadell in BEIJNG, and Julie Zhu and Kane Wu in HONG KONG; Editing by ... ( read original story ...)
HK, China agree on cross-boundary supervision
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong have entered into a memorandum of understanding regarding the cooperation and exchange of information in connection with the supervision and ... ( read original story ...)
SuperCharger Fintech Accelerator Raises $14.4 Million, Lands 47 Deals in Most Recent Hong Kong Cohort
In April, Standard Chartered officially opened its Hong Kong innovation lab, the eXellerator ... the next generation of FinTech entrepreneurs that could potentially shape banking trends.” Standard Chartered also launched SC Ventures this year. ( read original story ...)
Tencent tumbles, weighing on Hang Seng index as US takes aim at Google’s ties with Chinese firms
Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings tumbled on Friday, dragging Hong Kong’s benchmark with it ... over its ties with Huawei and few other Chinese tech firms. The Hang Seng Index fell 1.8 per cent, or 554.42 points, to 30,958.21, halting ... ( read original story ...)
Gay rights failures are holding back Asia banking: Nisha Gopalan
In Asia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo risk falling short on measures two and three because of their backward attitude toward gay rights. In failing to recognize LGBT rights, each risks losing talent to places such as New York and London. That’s ... ( read original story ...)