Bank

30 Apr 2012

Jasper Moiseiwitsch offers a guide to private banking in Hong Kong.

Hostages freed from Japan bank after police find captor sleeping

24 Nov 2012

Japanese police rescued four hostages from a bank yesterday and arrested the knife-wielding man who had held them captive for more than 12 hours while demanding the prime minister resign,...

Incentive talk stops panic sell-off in Shanghai stock market

22 Nov 2012

The mainland stock market crashed through a psychologically important level yesterday before a rumour about an incentive policy helped it recover early losses to finish higher.

Occupy Central, it's time to pack up

31 Aug 2012

The real message from Occupy Central does not come from the protest group but from the way the rest of us have tolerated its antics. The remnants of the unruly, self-styled anti-capitalist...

Bank of China posts sharply lower profit growth

24 Aug 2012

Bank of China, the mainland's fourth-largest lender by assets, says profit growth slowed sharply in the first half of this year because of a weaker economy, regulatory changes and the absence of...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Wuxi residents unsettled as police stage bank robbery for training exercise

Residents of Wuxi in Jiangsu province were left confused after police staged an armed robbery exercise at a bank on a crowded street in the city without first informing the public.

Occupy activists refuse to budge from HSBC

Occupy Central protesters say they will keep fighting to remain in a public walk-through area beneath HSBC's headquarters in Central, no matter how a court rules on the bank's request for an...

Events

Friday, August 10: British Chamber of Commerce lunch: 'State secrets in China in 2012: A recap on the fundamentals and a look at recent developments'. British Consulate General.

Iranian bank waits it out in HK

One of the three Iranian banks named by the US regulator for illegal dealings with Standard Chartered Bank has been operating in Hong Kong for more than a decade but has been barred from taking...

BEA losing steam on the mainland

Bank of East Asia, Hong Kong's fifth-largest lender by assets, posted higher first-half earnings but warned that the quality of its assets on the mainland was deteriorating and the spread was...

StanChart extends profit-growth run

Standard Chartered Bank will continue to invest and hire in the second half of this year, after posting record first-half profits for the 10th consecutive year.