Financial Services

SFC slaps $2m fine on HPI Forex Limited

The company used client money to conduct proprietary transactions.

Close Chinese ties raise Hong Kong banks' compliance risk

The SAR already faces medium-high money laundering risk.

Is the Asian wealth race shifting away from Singapore and Hong Kong?

Wealth managers are shifting to cities like Jakarta, Shanghai and Manila.

HKMA slaps $5m fine on Shanghai Commercial Bank over money laundering breaches

SCOM failed to monitor its relationship with 33 customers with suspicious transactions.

Can China's payment titans crack Hong Kong's mobile wallet market?

AlipayHK users have doubled to 1.5 million since March.

Peg defense boosts interbank borrowing costs to two-month peak

The HIBOR for a one-month interest period hit 1.38%.

Residents expect to fall short of $5m life savings target

They expect they can set aside only $3.15m after retirement.

Central bank buys $2.355b to defend weakening currency peg

The HKD fell as the greenback gained strength after Turkey’s market turmoil.

Hong Kong-New Zealand tax treaty protocol kicks into effect

It implements the automatic exchange of information in tax matters on a bilateral basis.

Two more Chinese firms jump in on biotech listing fever

Kintor and Frontier are amongst those eyeing floats.

Homeowners to feel pinch as banks hike mortgage rates

BOC (Hong Kong), HSBC and Hang Seng Bank raised rates by 10bp.

Singapore nabbed Asia's fintech crown from Hong Kong in 2017

Total fintech funding hit US$983.6m in 2017 versus Hong Kong's US$596.8m.

Hong Kong stock exchange operator profit surges 44% to $5.04b in H1

Record revenues from trading and jumbo listings boosted HKEX half-year earnings.

Chinese tech firm Bytedance eyes US$3b in funding before jumbo Hong Kong IPO

It would put the firm in prime position to be the world's second largest unicorn.

Asian fintech funding skyrocketed 740% to US$16.8b in H1

Thanks to the US$14b funding round by China's Ant Financial.