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S&P finally gets a licence to rate local debt in China – and take on Dagong
Feb 8, 2019 (WiC 440)

Downgrading its credit rating for US government debt to a level barely above junk won Dagong Global more headlines than credibility when it announced its decision last January. Bemused analysts pointed out this was the same firm that had awarded ...

Will new securities regulator be boon for market?
Feb 1, 2019 (WiC 439)

In most countries the announcement of a new regulator for the securities market barely musters a mention in the newspapers. Not so in China, where the appointment of a new China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) chairman is always big news ...

New World buys FTLife as ‘China’s Berkshire Hathaway’ unloads assets
Jan 11, 2019 (WiC 436)

Underpinned by Chinese investors wanting to park some of their spare cash offshore in life insurance coverage, many of the recent takeovers of the Hong Kong units of a number of insurers have come from mainland buyers. Yunfeng Financial, ...

Bitcoin crash clouds crypto currency firms’ IPOs
Nov 30, 2018 (WiC 434)

Lei Hua did not expect the business of harvesting next-generation currency would lead to his downfall. A headmaster at a high school in Hunan, Lei secretly moved eight of his mining machines into his school’s electronics lab last July in a bid ...

Beijing bolsters its stock bourses in a bid to bluster through the trade war
Nov 2, 2018 (WiC 430)

It is said that the stock market never lies. And as American voters gear up to pick their congressmen and state governors next week, Donald Trump has pointed to it again in a bid to earn credit for his presidency. “The Stock Market is up ...

Is China’s ‘Titanic’ debt problem getting even bigger?
Oct 26, 2018 (WiC 429)

What do the following places have in common: Zhenjiang in Jiangsu province, Xiangtan in Hunan and Shaoxing in Zhejiang? The answer: they hold the dubious distinction of being China’s most indebted cities. Earlier this month, an HSBC research ...

Pandas set to make a comeback as foreigners tap renminbi bonds
Oct 26, 2018 (WiC 429)

The world’s three biggest domestic bond markets all have special categories for foreign issuers: Yankees in the US, Samurais in Japan and Pandas in China. And in China’s case, they have proved to be as rare as the bear they are named ...

Why the Oscars for China’s financial analysts were suspended this year
Oct 5, 2018 (WiC 427)

Institutional Investor started in 1967 as a publication telling insider stories from Wall Street. But it was what the magazine did next that defined it: rating the performance of the sell-side analysts who scored the investment-worthiness of ...

Why private equity firms in China are facing tougher times
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

Zhihu is to China what Quora is to the US: a reliable source of answers for users’ questions – often provided by experts in their respective fields. Indeed, when Zhihu’s founder, Zhou Yuan, was recently touting his Series E funding, he told ...

Alipay and WeChat Pay to lose lucrative revenue stream in fintech backlash
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

How do you tell someone you care? In the West, one way is a gift of flowers, an act said to have been encouraged by the American Florists Telegraph Delivery Group which coined the expression “say it with flowers” a century ago. In China ...

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