China’s top securities regulator has pledged to widen foreign investors’ access to the mainland’s capital market while further lowering the fundraising threshold for technology firms, after a key indicator slumped nearly 4 per cent from a 10-year high in mid-November. Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), set out guidance for the…
China’s top securities regulator has pledged to widen foreign investors’ access to the mainland’s capital market while further lowering the fundraising threshold for technology firms, after a key indicator slumped nearly 4 per cent from a 10-year high in mid-November. Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), set out guidance for the…
Moore Threads Technology, a Chinese developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), on Friday received approval for an initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style Star Market. Founded in 2020, Beijing-based Moore Threads plans to raise 8 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) from its IPO, according to its prospectus. It took the company just 88 days from…
Mainland China’s three stock exchanges had a sluggish first half, raising a third of the bounty from initial public offerings (IPOs) in Hong Kong, due to a regulatory crackdown that has hobbled fundraising since August 2023 and left the primary market in the lurch. Some 50 companies raised a combined 33.6 billion yuan (US$4.7 billion)…
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…