China

Alec Baldwin, the famous actor, told Top Gear how “He’s [John DeLorean] like Musk and other people who want to form their own company, and do something bold.”

Press Release

Financial services can underpin China-EU relationship

May 10, 2021

The report entitled: Beyond the challenges: the strength of Sino-European ties, finds that Chinese investment into Europe has boomed from €6.1bn in 2010 to €79bn in 2018, with financial services representing the second largest investment sector.

Press Release

Time to value (by Kingswood)

April 19, 2021

Chinese GDP in the first quarter was up as much as 18.4% on a year earlier. But the gain compared to the previous quarter was a much more meagre 0.6%. Even so, growth over the year as a whole should still be close to 9%, higher than any other major economy with the exception of India.

Press Release

GLEIF Welcomes Pioneering Advances by China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) Which Paves the Way for Increased LEI Usage in Mass Market Digital Identity Products

April 14, 2021

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has welcomed the first commercial demonstration of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) embedded within digital certificates by the China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA).

Digital Assets Regulator

Crypto – popular in the US, Russia, Nigeria and a few other countries

March 2, 2021

“Bitcoin is like the first plane built by the Wright Brothers. They built it using human intuition and imitation of birds, long before fluid dynamics were formulated. Bitcoin was built by Satoshi using intuition and heuristics, and he didn’t start with a theoretical framework as the foundation.”

Cybersecurity Technology

The Quantum Dilemma that Banks Must Face

February 24, 2021

“The newest technology of the future won’t be able to tell that you are using an exotic protocol. A lot of companies are afraid of attacks, and for them so they wouldn’t want to advertise necessarily that their network has an exotic protocol. Our VPN means that from the outside companies can remain incognito and nobody can tell if they are protected by anything other than standard cryptography.”

Banking Technology

Big regulation for BigTech?

February 23, 2021

FaceBook’s recent ‘unfriending’ of Australia, as prime minister Scott Morrison put it, is an ongoing, high-profile example of the high-stakes arena, while the UK is to shortly launch a Digital Markets Unit to (in the government’s words) ‘introduce and enforce a new code to govern the behaviour of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook’.

Banking

Reputation vs Value? How did Banks rank in the last 12 months

February 1, 2021

Currently holding the lowest reputation score among all banks in the US, Wells Fargo experienced the largest decline in brand value – dropping two places to seventh overall, and third in the US – the result of failing to rebuild favour among customers in the wake of several past scandals.

Asia Digital Assets

The Launch of China’s Digital Yuan: Innovation or Surveillance?

January 21, 2021

Trump famously accused China of manipulating its currency to gain an undue advantage when trading with its’ partners. We covered the story of problems between the U.S. and China in our story about Hong Kong in June last year.

COVID-19 Investment Banking

Will Inflation be the Big Disruptor for Fixed Income in 2021?

January 11, 2021

“Europe remains at a disadvantage to the US and China, thanks to its lack of successful technology giants, such as Microsoft and Google on one side of the Pacific and Alibaba on the other.

Fintech

Why did Ant Group not complete its’ IPO? A fight against Fintech monopoly or free speech?

November 26, 2020

Recently there was a scandal that we covered at #DisruptionBanking involving German digital payment giant Wirecard. € 1.9 billion went missing. The story may have led the Chinese government to understand that it needs to scrutinize Fintech companies more; and that fraud does happen in this sector.

Capital Markets

“Approved for Business” in China, and Ant Group’s $35 billion IPO

September 29, 2020

Fang went on to reveal that offshore investors hold $294bn of stocks in circulation. Including all investment through other channels as well, foreign investors own just 4.69% of Chinese stocks in circulation. In comparison, international investors own roughly 30% of Japanese and South Korean stocks.

#DisruptionChat Startups

Talking about Innovation with Dr Jeffrey Funk from Singapore

August 6, 2020

Asia Europe Fintech Hot News

Never mind Leipzig, can China deliver?

June 16, 2020

Penetration of the Chinese market by European banks is a somewhat different kettle of fish. ‘Europe is open, China is not’

Asia Hot News

Follow the Belt & Road Initiative, not the Yellow Brick Road

June 4, 2020

During the global disruption of the last ten years, one thing remains constant, China’s plan to develop a huge Trading Network outside of China.

Asia Hot News

Hong Kong – Modern Banking Wars

June 2, 2020

Two themes have particularly stood out, the two voices of China and the USA when it comes to Hong Kong.

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