Banks

Blue blood banks

30 Apr 2012

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

3:57PM

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...

12:06PM

Investors salivating over high street banks

29 Apr 2013

Investors will have their pick of British banks in the next couple of years with up to five lenders looking to float on the stock market, offering a potentially lucrative, and nostalgic, punt on...

11:28AM

Stronger yuan a boost for Hong Kong banks

29 Apr 2013

The recent strengthening of the yuan against the US dollar might mean we have to shell out more for "Made in China" labels, but it is good news for local banks and depositors with yuan on hand.

4:11AM

Rich Russians flock to Cyprus to salvage their investments

24 Mar 2013

They clustered in small groups on the plush couches dotted around the lounge of the Four Seasons hotel in the port city of Limassol. Nervous whispers and furtive glances revealed these were no...

9:16AM

Who will rescue Cypriot banks - the EU or Russia?

22 Mar 2013

What started off as a botched rescue of the banking system in Cyprus has morphed into geopolitical brinkmanship between Russia and the European Union. It now looks like a fight over who will bail...

4:00AM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Stock Watch: Hang Seng Bank

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...

2:31AM

China Merchants rises in earnings and bad loans

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...

3:10AM

Wells Fargo takes shelter in Asia with bigger team

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...

11:05PM

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...

10:30PM

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...

6:13PM

Lai See

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

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