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Street protests and a pandemic have forced Hong Kong’s bankers and investors to experiment with how they work and raise funds for clients – their innovations have been surprisingly successful and could well outlast the crises.

Hong Kong’s status as Asia’s leading financial centre is being undermined by politics. Can it survive?

The economy is suffering as months of protests show no sign of abating. Banks have been targeted by demonstrators. So far, its financial markets have been largely unaffected. But surely it is only a matter of time before Asia’s greatest financial centre suffers too?

Hong Kong’s Financial Services under-secretary is a rare species: a government official willing to talk to the media, despite holding such a tough job of keeping the SAR’s markets operating smoothly in a time of chaos.

The 30th 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.

With much of CLSA's value tied up in the creative brains who have now left the Hong Kong brokerage, its remaining staff must be nervously watching to see how much of the financial institution's free-wheeling spirit remains – and if it can survive.

The first Chinese bank to sign the Equator Principles, Industrial Bank has led the development of the green financing market.

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