The rapid growth in sustainable finance deals will continue in 2022, supported by the growing practice of taking environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues into consideration while …
Sustainable finance: deals in Asia, Hong Kong to continue growing in 2022 as regulators and investors double down on ESG, financiers say
The rapid growth in sustainable finance deals will continue in 2022, supported by the growing practice of taking environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues into consideration while …
Two Hong Kong news editors at shuttered website charged with sedition
Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, both top editors at the pro-democracy website Stand News, were charged and denied bail on Thursday.
Blinken demands Hong Kong authorities free detained Stand News staff: “Journalism is not sedition”
Hong Kong police announced Thursday they’ve formally charged two people with “conspiracy to publish seditious publications,” a day after a raid on Stand News’ office that’s been denounced by Secretary …
U.S. Equity Futures Dip; China Tech Bolsters Asia: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks got a fillip Friday from a rally in a Hong Kong technology gauge following a surge in U.S.-listed Chinese shares. U.S. equity futures fell after Wall Street dipped from a record in thin …
How China dismantled Hong Kong’s democracy in 2021
Again and again throughout 2021, the Hong Kong authorities and the central government in Beijing stamped out nearly everything the pro-democracy movement had stood for.
China’s Didi plans Hong Kong ‘listing by introduction’, picks banks – sources
China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Global plans to use a mechanism that will allow it to list shares in Hong Kong without raising capital or issuing new stock as it seeks to delist from New York, two …
Insight – Beyond Didi: Watch these homecoming China stock listings in 2022
WITH Didi Global Inc seeking a listing in Hong Kong less than a year after its tumultuous debut in New York, investors are looking for other US-traded Chinese names that could potentially offer shares …
China’s behaviour in Hong Kong exhausts any sympathy
JADE GAO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGESThe Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics are a totem of President Xi’s determination to demonstrate that China has beaten the vi …
Hong Kong’s end of year report
I wrote a piece entitled “The Future of Hong Kong as an International Finance Centre[1]”. I began with a Churchill quote – “It is always to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.