Banks

Blue blood banks

30 Apr 2012

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

Anita Fung: The HSBC chief executive who broke through the glass ceiling

9 Oct 2012

When Anita Fung Yuen-mei became HSBC's first female CEO for Hong Kong in September last year, she inherited a hot seat.

The lender had just announced 3,000 job cuts in Hong Kong and the...

Stock Watch: Hang Seng Bank

12 Nov 2012

Bank stocks can certainly be a great investment. Banks, in normal times, are reliable profit spinners. Left-wingers and related Occupiers may complain about banks' corrosive impact on society and...

China Merchants rises in earnings and bad loans

18 Aug 2012

China Merchants Bank, the country's sixth-largest lender by market capitalisation, said bad loans rose for the second consecutive quarter as credit quality in the Yangtze River and Pearl River...

Wells Fargo takes shelter in Asia with bigger team

6 Aug 2012

Wells Fargo, the largest bank by market capitalisation in the United States, aims to grow its revenue at a double-digit pace annually over the next three years in China, despite increasing...

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HSBC earnings likely to be hit by euro-zone woes

HSBC, Europe's biggest bank by assets, is scheduled to report its first-half earnings on Monday amid growing trouble in the euro zone that may affect its profits and force it to build a stronger...

Investor's HK$80m claim is thrown out

A daughter of a late Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing chairman yesterday lost her HK$80 million claim against HSBC over complex high-risk financial products she says she was misled into buying...

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Whiff of double standards in government's take on air quality

Lawmakers deny HK$28m report was waste of money

The Legislative Council report on the Lehman Brothers fiasco cost taxpayers HK$28 million - the most expensive Legco investigation ever.

High-end hiring gets pricier

At a time when Asia is experiencing a rapidly expanding tribe of wealthy clients, the tough new capital and liquidity rules the banking industry faces are coinciding with the rising cost of...

HSBC to hive off more non-core assets

HSBC said it was in talks to sell its operations in Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay, part of the bank's strategy to streamline operations and dispose of non-core assets under the leadership...