When Yan Jun was looking around last year for a stock market to raise capital for his Beijing-based traffic-control software company, the engineer and chairman thought he was spoiled for choice. He could sell shares of his 10-year-old company AICT on one of the three mainland exchanges – Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen – that together…
May 30, 2025 The luxury residential property market in Hong Kong is showing signs of recovery as the chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) recently sold a house in Pok Fu Lam for HK$70 million (US$8.9 million). According to the South China Morning Post, this sale price is approximately three times what Carlson…
The Hong Kong stock exchange is set to be inundated with initial public offerings (IPOs) in coming months after Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery king CATL’s bumper listing whetted global investors’ appetite for Asian markets, according to JPMorgan. The local bourse, buoyed by regulators’ efforts to promote fundraising, has made a strong comeback this year…
In the second instalment of a three-part series on financial decoupling between China and the US, experts tell the Post how pressure on US-listed companies from the mainland could be a windfall for Hong Kong’s markets. Read the first part here. A month ago, Patrick Tsang, the CEO of Deloitte China, learned that the US…
Mar 10, 2025 Hong Kong’s stock market is preparing to welcome some of Thailand’s largest corporations for secondary listings, enhancing investment opportunities for global investors. South China Morning Post reports that the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has recognized the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) on its approved list of global exchanges. This initiative…
The proportion of seats occupied by women on the boards of Hong Kong-based companies has surpassed one in five for the first time, but significant disparities remain in senior-management representation and pay equity, reports show. Across all Hong Kong-listed companies, 20.8 per cent of board seats were occupied by women as of October, up from…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), which operates Asia’s third-largest stock exchange, reported record annual profit on higher market turnover and a surge in new listings amid a market rally that started in September. Net profit in 2024 increased 10 per cent to HK$13 billion (US$1.7 billion), or HK$10.32 per share, the company said in…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), which operates Asia’s third-largest stock exchange, reported record annual profit on higher market turnover and a surge in new listings amid a market rally that started in September. Net profit in 2024 increased 10 per cent to HK$13 billion (US$1.7 billion), or HK$10.32 per share, compared with HK$11.9 billion…
Hong Kong’s financial regulators have pledged to ease listing requirements for mainland Chinese companies, as they eye the city’s stock market as a source of funding to support their global ambitions. The market watchdog and the bourse operator would unveil proposed revisions later this year, aiming to lower the fundraising threshold, optimise market structure and…
