Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, HSBC is the bank others are measured by and, in many cases, aspire to be, notably the big Chinese state banks in their forever-quest to usurp it. Yet again, ‘The bank’, as it’s known, led the Hong Kong market in all the key measures: overall customer accounts, mandatory provident fund accounts and mortgages, in a market where property is paramount.

Debut green bond is part of a wider attempt by the government to encourage the development of green financing in the city.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is looking for a new chief executive to replace Norman Chan later this year, but if history is any guide, don’t expect it to look very far.

The 29th annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll invited chief investment officers, fund managers and investment analysts to take part. Voters represented fund management houses, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and wealth managers from around the world. A total of 6,540 valid individual responses from 3,100 different institutions, including 411 hedge funds, were received.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange and its counterparts in Shanghai and Shenzhen will include companies with dual-class shares on the southbound trading of Stock Connect, after reaching a deal.

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Disruptor Alex Kong has already shaken up Asia’s travel industry; now he has the region’s money transfer and payments systems in his sights with his total-solution e-wallet, TNG.

Charles Li has courted controversy in his shake-up of the Hong Kong stock exchange, but is he a plant for Beijing, or a polished professional with a mandate to modernize and internationalize the city’s exchanges?

Never shy about championing its latest grand development plan, Beijing is set to unveil the Greater Bay Area, a scheme designed to bind together the economies of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. What is it, will it succeed, and can it really transform the region into China’s Silicon Valley?