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...The US fund last year lent €275m to a holding company that also owns Italian football club Inter Milan, which is majority-owned by Chinese retail giant Suning, helping cover liquidity needs....
...Vehicles such as the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust that give investors exposure to crypto assets without holding the tokens directly attracted billions of dollars in 2021, as asset managers including ProShares...
...(FT) Branchless banking HSBC has a plan to profit from mainland China’s burgeoning middle class: an army of 3,000 roaming bankers on the hunt for new clients, equipped with fintech tools to advise them...
...Separately, the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act — signed into law by Mr Trump in December — will delist all China-based companies in three years if China does not co-operate with audit-oversight...
...The firm has had an office in Hong Kong since 2012, recently hiring Kenny Lam, formerly president of China-based wealth manager, Noah Holdings, to run the Asia-Pacific region, including mainland China....
...It’s a sharp deviation from last year, when the Ferragamo family, which owns a 54 per cent stake in Ferragamo Finanziaria, the holding company that controls the brand, explored selling a minority stake to...
...In mainland China, the bank says, 90 per cent of its customers use WeChat to complete everyday banking and credit card transactions. The details will matter, of course....
...(NYT) Business ties The FT’s John Gapper urges businesses in Hong Kong to stay strong under mounting economic pressure from mainland China to confront protesters who work for them....
...Foreign holdings of onshore bonds have risen strongly in recent months, boosted by a stable renminbi and attractive yields....
...As one of the most dynamic businessmen in America — he founded real estate investment behemoth Chestnut Holdings LLC, and was an early investor in designer Tory Burch — he’s more than just a backer....
...Digital Asset Holdings has become one of the best-funded developers of blockchain software for the financial sector after raising $40m from investors led by the family office of Tony James, president and...
...major Shanghai and Shenzhen-listed companies rose 1.1 per cent as Tuesday’s upbeat Caixin-Markit purchasing managers’ survey and a change to the rules that will increase the size of the free float in many mainland...
...At the same time, it is unclear what will happen to existing international holdings of some of these companies....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Wharf Holdings, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, Dai-ichi Life, Tata Motors, DeNA, Bridgestone, JXTG Holdings, Trend Micro and...
...Mainland property developer Fullshare Holdings came under fire from Glaucus Research on Tuesday, when the California-based short seller issued a report raising questions about its share price trading patterns...
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 0.4 per cent, while on the mainland the Shanghai Composite and the tech-focused Shenzhen Composite both eased 0.3 per cent....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.5 per cent, while on the mainland China’s Shanghai Composite and the tech-focused Shenzhen Composite were both up 0.2 per cent....
...On the mainland, China’s Shanghai Composite was down 0.2 per cent and the smaller Shenzhen Composite gained 0.1 per cent....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.1 per cent, with the energy sector holding up as the price of oil rose about $50 overnight for the first time since June....
...The venture, which is expected to be announced in the next few days, will involve staging mainland events and setting up sponsorship and advertising deals for the Los Angeles’ firm’s roster of sports leagues...
...Among notable share price moves in Japan, SoftBank was down 10.7 per cent in the wake of announcing yesterday it would buy the British smartphone chipmaker Arm Holdings for £23.4bn....
...However the Hang Seng was one-quarter of a percentage point higher while on the Chinese mainland, the Shanghai Composite was up 0.5 per cent and the Shenzhen Composite advanced 1.1 per cent....
...Most of the capital raised has been for Chinese regional bank offerings — a sector that often relies on mainland support more than interest from international investors....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng has risen 1.1 per cent, while on the Chinese mainland, the Shanghai Composite is down 0.2 per cent and the tech-focused Shenzhen Composite has advanced 0.8 per cent....
...On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite is down 1.2 per cent as the market begins its 90-minute lunchbreak. Energy is its worst-performing sector....
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