https://www.scmp.com/rss/509923/feed Bonnie Y. Chan is CEO of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX). She has over 30 years of international capital markets experience, with a career spanning the legal, regulatory and investment banking fields. She has previously served on the Financial Services Development Council. Ms Chan holds a master of laws degree from Harvard Law School. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Over the past few decades, there has been significant progress in gender equality globally, with more women holding parliamentary seats, fewer women living in extreme poverty and more legal reforms enacted to close the gender gap. But, despite the progress in some areas, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index predicts it will take the world 134 years to reach gender parity. Clearly, there is still much work to be done. At the same time, we are seeing some markets and companies in... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3301049/having-more-women-boards-makes-business-sense-hong-kong-gets-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3301049/having-more-women-boards-makes-business-sense-hong-kong-gets-it?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:30:07 +0000 In just three years, Hong Kong has grown into the world’s second-largest listing venue for biotechnology pioneers, attracting Chinese and international companies, international investors, and a broad ecosystem of supporting services and participants. In 2018, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited introduced three new listing chapters to attract innovative companies with weighted voting rights structures, pre-revenue biotech companies, and secondary listings. Chapter 18A, which enabled... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3134767/how-hong-kong-can-cement-its-position-biotech-listing-hub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3134767/how-hong-kong-can-cement-its-position-biotech-listing-hub?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 May 2021 01:15:15 +0000