The operator of the Hang Seng Index is soliciting market views on the eligibility of weighted voting rights and secondary-listed companies for inclusion in the benchmark.
January 16, 2020The framework will enable foreign banks in China to set up separate digital banking platforms, while also covering existing online-only banks WeBank, MYbank and AiBank.
January 15, 2020Grab, Singtel, Razer, Ant Financial, V3 Group, EZ-Link, iFast Corporation, ByteDance, AMTD, Xiaomi, PhillipCapital, Temasek, Enigma Group and Singapura Finance are among applicants.
January 6, 2020HKEX hopes to shorten Hong Kong's five-day IPO settlement process to just one day by end-2020.
December 25, 2019PayPal's acquisition of a majority stake in Gopay gives it access to licences that allow it to offer online, mobile and cross-border renminbi payments.
December 24, 2019The CSRC has reportedly been in talks with the US audit regulator on allowing joint inspections of firms that audit Chinese companies listed in the US.
December 19, 2019While no immediate financial stability risks have been identified, there may be new issues to consider given the scale of services provided via the cloud and the small number of globally dominant players.
December 10, 2019The rule changes come over a year after the China and Hong Kong bourses started working towards including dual class shares in Stock Connect.
October 22, 2019The PBOC has approved PayPal’s acquisition of a majority stake in domestic payments firm Gopay, giving it access to various domestic payments licences.
October 1, 2019Tencent Credit and Alibaba’s Sesame Credit hold more customer data than any of their online lending peers, but they are not providing the data to the national credit database.
September 20, 2019