London based Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp (HSBC) has appointed Jayant Rikhye as India CEO effective from December 1, subject to regulatory approvals. Indian born Rikhye has spent his entire career at HSBC since starting at the bank in 1989. ( read original story ...)
Eight Hong Kong bankers who quit finance for Alibaba
Alibaba, China’s e-commerce behemoth, has a thing for hiring bankers into senior leadership roles. It appointed 20-year Goldman veteran Michael Evans as its president in 2015, and a year later named another ex-Goldmanite, Douglas Feagin, as head of ... ( read original story ...)
Tencent unit China Literature launches up to $1.1 billion Hong Kong IPO: IFR
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Literature Ltd launched on Monday an IPO in Hong Kong worth as much as $1.1 billion, seeking funds for acquisitions and to expand its digital publishing business, IFR reported citing a term sheet of the transaction. The Tencent ... ( read original story ...)
Tencent unit China Literature launches up to $1.1 billion HK IPO
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Literature Ltd, China’s largest online publishing and e-book company, launched an initial public offering for up to $1.1 billion on Monday, seeking funds for acquisitions and to expand its digital publishing business. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong IPOs will fade further without exchange reforms
Three years ago, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong lost the chance to host the record $25 billion initial public offering of Alibaba Group Holding because regulators would not allow the company's founders certain privileges they regarded as contrary to the ... ( read original story ...)
How a Few Hot IPOs Hit Hong Kong Stocks
Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering Asian markets. She previously wrote on markets for Barron's, following a career as an investment banker, and is a CFA charterholder. Volatility is returning to Hong Kong stocks. In normal times, hot IPOs ... ( read original story ...)
China-based coworking operator naked Hub sets sights on Hong Kong IPO
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shanghai-based coworking space startup naked Hub said on Friday it plans to go public in Hong Kong after a fresh round of fundraising next year, potentially adding more Chinese “new economy” companies to the Asian financial hub ... ( read original story ...)
Sinochem Taps Banks For Hong Kong IPO Of Oil Assets
China’s Sinochem Group has tapped three banks, including Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), to work on the possible Hong Kong listing of its key oil assets, as it seeks to raise capital and revive the company, said four people with knowledge of the matter. ( read original story ...)
Sinochem taps banks for Hong Kong IPO of oil assets: sources
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China’s Sinochem Group has tapped three banks, including Morgan Stanley (MS.N), to work on the possible Hong Kong listing of its key oil assets, as it seeks to raise capital and revive the company, said four people with ... ( read original story ...)
How the Stalled Aramco IPO Could Hamper Hong Kong’s Dreams
As oil giant Saudi Arabian Oil Co.—better known as Aramco—rethinks plans for what was expected to be the world’s biggest ever initial public offering, it’s not only investment bankers and the big stock exchanges of New York and London that are ... ( read original story ...)
UK politician urges Hong Kong authorities to probe HSBC, StanChart over ‘illicit funds’ linked to South Africa corruption scandal
A British parliamentarian has urged Hong Kong’s financial authorities to investigate his claims that banks in the city were used to process allegedly illicit funds linked to South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma and the powerful Gupta family of businessmen. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-listed company director, bank manager latest victims of separate phone scams
The director of a Hong Kong-listed company and a bank manager from mainland China became the latest victims of phone scams in two separate cases earlier this week after losing more than HK$2.5 million to con artists posing as officers. At about 4pm on ... ( read original story ...)
Seven hiring horror stories from Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney
What’s going wrong in banking recruitment right now? We spoke to recruiters in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia to find out. There’s currently a surplus of senior investment bankers in Asia after several global banks have shed front-office staff over ... ( read original story ...)
HK’s Mason Group to buy European private banking firm for $60 mln
HONG KONG, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Financial services group Mason Group Holdings Ltd said on Thursday it would buy a Liechtenstein-incorporated private banking services provider for 58.6 million Swiss Franc ($59.73 million), as it expands into the European ... ( read original story ...)