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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 ...

Chinese conglomerate completes European bank deal
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

Legend Holdings has a reputation for leading the pack in market-leading acquisitions and the group has been at it again with the acquisition of Luxembourg’s oldest private bank, Banque Internationale a Luxembourg (BIL). To date, Legend’s ...

The investment firm behind a herd of China’s unicorns heads for an IPO
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

Private equity firms usually prefer to operate behind the scenes. So it was a surprise when Blackstone Group, one of the sector’s most influential players, put itself in the spotlight by going public in May 2007. The $4 billion initial ...

Yestar to IPO on the back of plastic surgery craze
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

Two actresses climbed the celebrated steps at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. One was Fan Bingbing, one of China’s most famous stars. The other was Fan Bingbing too, or at least that is what many news outlets were erroneously reporting when ...

Xiaomi’s much-hyped IPO has seen its valuation chopped from $100 billion
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

It prides itself on building “amazing products at honest prices”. Yet it seems Xiaomi Corp does not believe that same credo applies to the valuation investors should accept for its initial public offering. The smartphone manufacturer is in ...

Foxconn and CATL spark buzz in China’s A-share IPO market
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

In recent years there has been much talk about Stock Connect – the channel that links mainland China’s two key bourses with Hong Kong’s stock exchange. But where the country’s equity markets are concerned right now the talk is much more ...

China’s A-shares have arrived at MSCI – which are favourites for investors?
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Less than a year after the Shanghai Stock Exchange launched with fits and starts in late 1991, the Chinese government began preparing to open the stock market to foreign capital. There were only eight A-share firms listed in Shanghai at the ...

Why bond market risks are on the rise
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Two years, two very different endangered species. In late 2017, Chinese entrepreneur He Qiaonv pledged to give $1.5 billion of her fortune to protect some of China’s most fragile habitats and save the country’s vulnerable snow leopard ...

A mega IPO for Shanghai – from Taiwan
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

It is rare to see a Taiwanese company setting records in mainland China’s capital markets, but such is the case with Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII). Terry Gou’s company is about to launch the largest IPO of the past three years – ...

Will MSCI’s inclusion of A-shares be overshadowed by trade war tensions?
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

If US President Donald Trump really wants a full-blown trade war with China, Wall Street investors are not yet feeling the pinch. Take the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index closed at a record high of 26,616 on January 26 this year and ...

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