https://www.scmp.com/rss/510069/feed Benjamin is a graduate from the University of Hong Kong's Bachelor of Business Administration (Law) and Bachelor of Laws programme. He has interned at Hong Kong's Department of Justice and at law firms Woo Kwan Lee & Lo and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. He has also been a research assistant to HKU professor Zhigang Tao since 2018. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last month, HSBC reported a 28 per cent year-on-year drop in its first-quarter profits, mainly due to troubled loans in its Russian and mainland Chinese businesses. Since then, there have been calls for HSBC to split into two – one side focused on Asia, the other on its global business. First, The Wall Street Journal reported than an unnamed investor had made the demand via a public relations firm. Then Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that Ping An, China’s largest insurer and the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/hong-kong/article/3176478/chinese-spin-would-ring-fence-hsbcs-golden-goose-amid-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/hong-kong/article/3176478/chinese-spin-would-ring-fence-hsbcs-golden-goose-amid-us?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 May 2022 01:16:22 +0000 As Hong Kong begins the process of selecting its leader for the sixth time since returning to the motherland, it is also time for the city to find new growth models in response to a changing world. Hong Kong has been fortunate in its opportunities to reinvent itself in the last 70 years. In the 1950s, amid restrictions on trade with mainland China, Hong Kong built its manufacturing capability with capital and know-how from Shanghai industrialists, and exported its own industrial output to the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3143780/hong-kong-flux-dual-strategy-reinventing-its-economy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3143780/hong-kong-flux-dual-strategy-reinventing-its-economy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:30:13 +0000 The National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed the new anti-sanctions law at its closing session, writing a new chapter in the ongoing Sino-US clash. While the details are yet unknown, foreign multinationals operating in China are anxious to know how it would affect their future business strategy. In 2018, then US president Donald Trump began to impose heavy tariffs on Chinese exports, sparking the Sino-US trade war. The battlefield soon shifted, as Chinese tech giants ZTE and Huawei... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3137362/chinas-anti-sanctions-law-how-companies-can-avoid-picking-side?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3137362/chinas-anti-sanctions-law-how-companies-can-avoid-picking-side?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:00:00 +0000