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C-suite interviews

C-suite interviews
Interviews with corporate executives, featuring chairpersons, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief marketing officers or other C-level business leaders.
Richard Oldfield, group chief executive of Schroders, pictured at the firm’s office in Admiralty on April 14, 2025. Photo: Sun Yeung
Wealth management

UK fund manager Schroders to invest more in Hong Kong, CEO says

‘When we think about where wealth is growing the fastest, it is in Asia,’ Richard Oldfield says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | HSBC to offer anti-ageing treatments, medical check-ups at Hong Kong wealth hub

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Sun Life sees Hong Kong as ‘most important’ market in Asia for life insurers

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Family offices

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s soon-to-open art-storage facility is an incentive for family offices

The complex at Skytopia airport city will be ready this year or early next year and enhance Hong Kong’s role as an art-trading centre.

Jason Fong, global head of family office at InvestHK, the airport art-storage facility will nhance Hong Kong’s role as an art-trading centre. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Banking & finance

‘China’s Goldman’ bets on Hong Kong’s role as offshore yuan hub

With low rates in China, borrowing in yuan is now cheaper than in other currencies, CICC says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong key to StanChart’s US$200 billion new money target: CEO Winters

Bank is developing over 200 use cases for AI, including fraud detection and prevention, anti-money-laundering screening and new products.

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Insurance

Manulife picks chief actuary Finch as Asia CEO to lead biggest profit centre

Steve Finch will take over as Asia CEO from May 9, replacing Phil Witherington who is heading back to Toronto to become global CEO.

Steve Finch, the incoming president and CEO of Asia at Manulife Tower in Kwun Tong on 18 March 2025. Photo: Sun Yeung
Artificial intelligence

AI-driven blood analysis may be the key to unlocking cancer’s secrets

AI helps researchers recognise patterns in the gene fragments they find in blood plasma, sparking a revolution in the field of epigenetics.

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Biomedicine: Science

Hong Kong doctor bets on blood tests after saving mums from the needle

Lo’s blood tests can potentially reveal more information about patients’ health, from cancers to neurodegenerative conditions to age-related diseases.

Macau

Exclusive | New Galaxy Macau chairman builds constellation of 5-star hotels

Francis Lui adds the opulent Capella hotel to the second-largest casino and resort operator’s growing universe of lodgings and attractions.

Francis Lui, chairman of Galaxy Entertainment Group. Illustration: Henry Wong
Macau

Wynn looks to Vegas to help revamp Macau’s US$28 billion casino economy

Macau seeks to source 60 per cent of its revenues from non-gaming sectors by 2028, from 20 per cent at present.

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Wynn Macau president and vice chairwoman Linda Chen and non executive chairman Allan Zeman. Illustration by Henry Wong
Insurance

Cigna seeks mainland China partnerships as Hongkongers go north to get treatment

An ageing population and shortage of doctors have led more Hongkongers to go north to get medical treatment, Cigna’s Hong Kong CEO says.

Electric & new energy vehicles

Exclusive | China’s EV champion Geely bets on tech edge to expand in Asia, EU

In an interview with the Post, Geely CEO Gui Shengyue discusses the company’s overseas strategy and EU tariffs.

Electric & new energy vehicles

Geely banks on profits from petrol cars as EVs inflict losses on rivals

‘As a carmaker, you will lose a profit growth engine if you do not make petrol cars,’ CEO Gui Shengyue says in interview.

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Petrol-powered cars to make up 30 per cent of Geely’s global auto sales, CEO Gui Shengyue says. Photo: Edmond So
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s potential as commodities hub draws expansion by Marex Group

The establishment of London Metal Exchange warehouses in Hong Kong will be a key enabler, Marex CEO says.

A collection of 100-gram gold bars sits on a table. Photo: DPA
SCMP Exclusives

Exclusive | Getting past poker: Sands China drives Macau to diversify economy

Xi Jinping to visit Macau for 25th anniversary of handover as Sands China unveils non-gaming strategy.

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Banking & finance

OCBC opens new Hong Kong office to house up to 15% more staff

‘We conducted a survey and found that 70 per cent of our staff prefer to work in the office instead of working from home,’ bank says.

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Banking & finance

Exclusive | French bank Credit Agricole CIB backs Hong Kong as Asian hub amid trade war

Bank has strong capability in yuan trading, green finance and infrastructure development, CEO Xavier Musca says.

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Xavier Musca, CEO of Credit Agricole CIB, said the bank will not scale down its activities in China or in Asia because of the threat of a trade war. Photo: Sun Yeung
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Citigroup’s Jane Fraser on Hong Kong’s enduring charm and strategic role

A potential trade war will not alter the US bank’s expansion plans in Asia, or Hong Kong’s importance, Fraser says in an exclusive interview.

Hong Kong property

Exclusive | World’s largest hedge fund CIO buys HK$95 million home in Hong Kong

Bridgewater Associates’ co-CIO Bob Prince paid HK$95 million for a three-bedroom home at St. George’s Mansion in Ho Man Tin.

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Banking & finance

Exclusive | China is ‘very much’ investible, offers unique diversification: Bridgewater

More stimulus is needed as spending is still too low to achieve its growth target, co-CIO Prince says.

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Bob Prince, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, during a panel discussion at the 2024 Family Business Summit in Hong Kong on November 16, 2024. Photo: Jelly Tse
HKEX

Saudi officials say firms in the Middle East are interested in listing in Hong Kong

Carlson Tong Ka-shing says Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong have established ‘trust and friendship’.

Carlson Tong Ka-shing, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. Photo: Edmond So
Insurance

Exclusive | Manulife on track to reach 50% Asia earnings target by 2027

Asia was the largest profit contributor to Canadian insurer in the third quarter, with 44 per cent of the group’s earnings coming from the region.

Hong Kong

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific in talks to help Saudi carrier expand Asia routes

Talk of a partnership followed the bulk order of 60 Airbus A321neo aircraft, announced this week during the annual FII conference in the Saudi capital.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong ETF raises US$1.3 billion as Middle East investors buy into China ‘miracle’

Since the public offering is still ongoing, the size of the fund may grow when it is listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

This picture taken December 12, 2019 shows the sign and logo of Saudi Arabia’s Stock Exchange Market (Tadawul) in the capital Riyadh. Photo: AFP
Insurance

Exclusive | Hong Kong needs a playbook to become marine insurance hub: broking giant

Hong Kong’s potential as a marine insurance hub hinges on tax incentives and easier capital raising for insurers, Willis Towers Watson CEO Carl Hess says.

Hong Kong has 2,600 ships with an aggregate 130 million gross tons, making it the world’s fourth largest register. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Exclusive | Risks of AI, geopolitics, climate on bankers’ minds at HKMA summit

‘We want to discuss how to navigate these changes and build resilience within the institutions to withstand any shocks,’ HKMA’s Eddie Yue says.

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Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong to turn bankers’ summit into calendar ‘anchor’ on popular demand

The summit is pivoting from the publicity objective of its 2022 inaugural edition to making Hong Kong the venue to discuss issues that affect global banking.

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