Banking & Finance « Week In China - Part 4

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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 ...

Gree skips dividend to make big chip investment
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

Will it be a case of third time lucky for Gree Electric’s Dong Mingzhu? China’s most famous businesswoman has not had much luck diversifying away from the company’s highly lucrative, but equally concentrated, business of selling air ...

Why a blockchain event in Macau has got widespread attention across China
May 4, 2018 (WiC 407)

Investors are sometimes a superstitious lot, so it was surprising that Hong Kong singer G.E.M. was rumoured to be performing her hit single Bubble at the World Block-chain Conference in Macau late last month. Featuring lyrics such as, “You ...

Why Hong Kong’s dollar drop could signal a slowdown in city’s economy
Apr 27, 2018 (WiC 406)

During his 16-year tenure as head of thr Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Joseph Yam was the staunchest defender of Hong Kong’s currency peg to the US dollar. In fact, he was often mocked as a “one-trick pony” – as a man who just ...

Ant Financial gears up for mega IPO
Apr 20, 2018 (WiC 405)

During his testimony to the US Congress last week, Mark Zuckerberg highlighted that Facebook had humble beginnings in his dorm room. But when Republican Senator Dan Sullivan suggested that Zuckerberg’s success was a quintessentially American ...

Walmart cuts off Alipay after forging deal with Tencent
Apr 6, 2018 (WiC 403)

On March 15 shoppers at Walmart’s Chengdu stores were greeted by a sign informing them of a change to how they could pay. On the list: Unionpay, Apple Pay and WeChat Pay. Off the list: Alipay. Customers at other locations discovered the same ...

Why Qudian CEO has joined the $1 salary club
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

Taking a $1 salary is a bold move by a boss. The practice has its provenance in wartime, when prominent executives in the US offered to serve their government for a token salary of just $1 per year (plus necessary expenses). Thanks largely to ...

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