China

2021 was a big year for IPOs. With almost 1,500 companies listing around the world, the number of IPOs nearly doubled in 2021 compared to the year before. The amount of capital raised surpassed $525 billion.

Asia Digital Assets

Why is Binance banned in Singapore?

December 30, 2021

Earlier in December we heard the news that Binance had withdrawn its application to obtain a cryptoexchange licence in Singapore. This followed frequent clashes with the regulator in Singapore, which in September prompted Binance to ban its users in the country from trading on its global platform.

Press Release

ISDA Publishes Whitepaper on Developing Safe, Robust and Efficient Derivatives Markets in China

December 15, 2021

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has today published a whitepaper that explores the development of China’s derivatives market and recommends policy measures to promote the safety, robustness and efficiency of the market.

Banking Blockchain Digital Assets Technology

From the CFTC to ‘CryptoDad’

October 28, 2021

‘CryptoDad’ was discussed in an interview between Scott O’Mallia, Chief Executive Officer of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA) and J. Christopher Giancarlo, Senior Counsel, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and former Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) Chairman. The conference forms part of the ISDA Regional Events program.

Press Release

SecAlliance reports on China’s Five-Year Plan and its implications for the Cyber Threat Landscape

October 21, 2021

There are clear indicators and factors pointing to more overt and confident cyber behaviour from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is highly likely to be coupled with large scale and continuous offensive cyber operations, according to a report published by cyber threat Intelligence company, SecAlliance.

Asia Sustainability ESG Technology

Guangzhou: The Beating Heart of China’s Electric Vehicles Push

October 20, 2021

The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.

Events

Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing talks sustainability at Sibos

October 15, 2021

The capital provided by Hong Kong’s markets will be crucial in financing China’s – and the wider region’s – path to a net-zero future. It will be to Hong Kong that businesses and entrepreneurs across Asia look to find the capital needed to build the green infrastructure and the transformative products of the future. As economies across the continent continue to develop, and become more economically sophisticated, it will be cash originating in Hong Kong that will wean them off coal and onto green energy.

Asia Banking

Customers, Regulation and China with Standard Chartered

October 14, 2021

Standard Chartered or StanChart is not a bank that is shy about it’s aspirations when it comes to China. Many of the speakers at this year’s Sibos have talked about China as well. Apart from CBDCs, digital transformation and the generous plethora of leaders involved in this years’ event, the Regulator and the Customer were also talking points.

Asia

The Unpredictability of Beijing

October 14, 2021

The opening months of MSCI’s new China indexes should serve as a warning. The CCP works in unpredictable ways, and sometimes in a manner that is deliberately economically damaging. For this reason, returns in China can never be taken for granted.

Banking Events

HSBC’s Noel Quinn opens Sibos 2021 with strong focus on Sustainability

October 11, 2021

“We’ve been around for 156 years bridging east and west. We still believe there’s a need to bridge east and west, from a corporate point of view and a trading point of view.”

Asia

Taliban takeover means Afghanistan risks becoming cradle for global terrorism

September 16, 2021

Lack of technocratic expertise, with most educated people having fled, will make it hard to ensure the economy runs well enough to allow the Taliban to cement support in the regions. Billions of dollars of funding have been lost from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the US, and the European Union, and the central bank reserves held in the US have been frozen.

Europe Fintech PayTech

How important is consumer choice in Europe?

September 9, 2021

“Europe is one example where AppGallery has grown considerably since its global launch three years ago. Huawei’s AppGallery is now the world’s third largest app marketplace with 540 million monthly active users (MAUs), growing in Europe by 61.5% year-on-year to more than 42 million users.” Michael shared.

Press Release

ISDA, NAFMII Publish Chinese Language IBOR Fallbacks Documents

July 30, 2021

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII) have published two Chinese language documents that will enable firms to include contractual fallbacks for certain interbank offered rates (IBORs) into onshore derivatives transactions documented under the 2009 NAFMII Master Agreement in China.

Artificial Intelligence Events

Is Belgrade a hub for AI?

July 23, 2021

Any business or individual with an interest in disruptive trends will have to watch closely the development of the AI in the months and years ahead. If the Serbian government, and many other stakeholders around the world, is correct then this industry will revolutionise cross-sector practice and perhaps even be a major driver of global growth.

Press Release

BSO upgrades routes between Shanghai and key financial hubs to offer unrivalled connectivity to Chinese markets

July 22, 2021

Shanghai hosts China's largest stock exchange and third largest in the world, establishing itself as the gateway to Chinese equities and futures markets

Asia News

China equities: Beyond the recovery

June 25, 2021

The recent correction in Chinese equity markets highlighted the uncertainties of the global pandemic recovery. But amid the ongoing transformation of the world’s second-largest economy, we see a long-term story that should support investment opportunities.

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