The protesters recently seen camping outside the Hongkong Bank headquarters had joined a global crusade against perceived corporate wrongdoing, known as Occupy Wall Street. But away from their demonstration, for several years now a local ad hoc protest group has been protesting against banks that sold defaulted Lehman Brothers minibonds.

Both movements have their supporters and detractors, but the minibond protests are an arguably more successful movement, and one that is all the more surprising for happening in the home of free markets and naked capitalism.