China Merchants Securities is under investigation for violations in 2014, prompting suspensions of 23 IPOs it is sponsoring.
September 1, 2022The investigation will impact any IPO applications being sponsored by China Merchants Securities.
August 19, 2022The SFC has approved three new Deutsche Bank hires who can act as IPO sponsor principals, after its licence was suspended in July due to a staffing gap.
September 3, 2021Former Yi Shun Da Capital CEO breached the code of conduct and sponsor guidelines in his work on the listing application of Imperial Sierra Group in 2017.
September 17, 2020The SFC’s investigation revealed that about 53% of Tianhe’s total track record revenue disclosed in its 2014 IPO prospectus was overstated.
September 8, 2020Among ASIC's concerns is the prevalence of conflicts of interest, whereby lead managers act for both the company and investing clients while holding direct interests and board seats in the company.
December 6, 2019The plaintiffs allege that KPMG “negligently failed to identify that they were the victims of a serious and pervasive false accounting by former members of executive management.”
November 5, 2019The SFC is working to introduce an investor identification regime for southbound Stock Connect trading in mid-2019, and considering adopting a market-wide circuit breaker mechanism.
June 24, 2019China Merchants Securities was a joint sponsor with UBS – fined in March – for the 2009 IPO of China Metal Recycling, which was found to have fabricated financial information.
May 28, 2019A former JP Morgan Securities managing director offered to employ the son of a potential client as a reward for "showing favour" in hiring the bank for IPO sponsor work.
May 20, 2019