Finance in China

24 Jan 2013

I have news for the Qianhai authorities. People I know in the investment business in New York either congratulate themselves on having long moved out of Manhattan or are grousing at being stuck...

Relaunch of bond futures trading in sight

17 Jan 2013

Beijing is preparing to officially launch government bond futures after a successful simulated-trading experiment, in a move towards liberalising the interest-rate mechanism.

Allianz keen to list on Shanghai's foreign board

17 Dec 2012

Global insurer Allianz is among the large number of foreign companies that are lining up to list on Shanghai's proposed international board.

HKMA supports Shanghai as onshore yuan hub

13 Dec 2012

Hong Kong Monetary Authority chief executive Norman Chan Tak-lam yesterday pledged to support Shanghai in building an onshore market for the yuan.

Are online small lenders here to stay?

24 Oct 2012

In China, a group of internet-savvy people are making real money in the virtual world: welcome to the brave new world of person-to-person lending.

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

Building up a profile of a fraudster

Some of you may remember the sci-fi movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as a police officer in the year 2054 who apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by psychics - that is,...

Ray of hope for long-suffering B-share investors

The nation's securities regulator is taking an initial step towards ironing out the festering issue of the B-share market, offering beleaguered investors a ray of hope after a decade of waiting....

Top GEAM fund manager quits to start own business

A top China-focused fund manager at GE Asset Management has quit to start his own business in China.

Zhou Ping, who was managing director for Greater China - including the mainland,...

To B or not to B? A question of reform

Speculation that Beijing will drastically overhaul the nation's slumbering hard-currency B-share market has reached fever pitch as the plummeting price of one of the companies on the board sends...

Shanghai B-share losses mount for fourth session

Shanghai's hard-currency B shares dropped for the fourth consecutive day yesterday, posting its biggest one-day loss in 10 months, amid rising fears about the tiny market's fate.

Exchange Fund to cast wider net

The Exchange Fund plans to cast a wider investment net to lift returns after suffering a HK$6.3 billion investment loss in the second quarter.

The fund said it would put more money...