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- MF Global spoke of 'strong' finances
- EC: No corp gov powers for ESAs
- FSA appoints senior investment bank adviser
- GFS has now closed
- Czechs join UK on fiscal compact sidelines
- Davos stalemate on EU's IMF funds
- Tucker: Resolution regime 'top priority'
- Saudi Arabia increases central bank role
- FSB urges Canada for one securities regulator
- CFTC set for committee to scrutinise HFT
- Fitch downgrades Belgian banks
- What corruption really costs
- UK FSA pushes for Mifid II rethink on OTCs
- Shanghai boosts global financial status
- Canada aligns credit rating rules with EU
- Bowles blasts lack of women at ECB
- Sarkozy to introduce French FTT in August
- Barnier warns on further bonus reforms
Hong Kong: In Focus
Hong Kong as China’s global financial centre
Julia Leung, Hong Kong’s under-secretary for financial services and the treasury, says that as China experiments with the international liberalisation of the renminbi, Hong Kong is the ideal ‘laboratory’ for testing the acceptability of RMB assets among international investors.
GFS has now closed
Global Financial Strategy was set up in April 2010 and closed at the end of January 2012.
HKMA relaxes RMB bank regulations
The Hong Kong financial watchdog says conditions are “ripe” to relax regulation on banks trading the Chinese renminbi currency in a bid to make HK an offshore RMB business centre.
Anti-money laundering in Hong Kong
Hong Kong-based private fund managers are due to face new anti-money laundering regulations from 1 April 2012. Charlotte Robins, partner at Norton Rose Hong Kong, analyses the changes.
Hong Kong ‘world’s top financial centre’
Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong has usurped New York and London as the world’s most developed financial centre, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong has usurped New York and London as the world’s most developed financial centre, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
FTT: The reality behind the headlines
Friday 9 Dec 2011 | Shiv Mahalingham
Introducing an EU financial transaction tax as a revenue raising measure is dangerous without paying attention to the impact on capital flows, writes Shiv Mahalingham, managing director at independent tax advisers Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK.
Friday 9 Dec 2011 | Shiv Mahalingham
Introducing an EU financial transaction tax as a revenue raising measure is dangerous without paying attention to the impact on capital flows, writes Shiv Mahalingham, managing director at independent tax advisers Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK.
Hong Kong unveils disclosure guidance
Wednesday 23 Nov 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong regulators have published interim guidance to bring remuneration disclosure requirements in the financial centre into line with new Basel standards.
Wednesday 23 Nov 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong regulators have published interim guidance to bring remuneration disclosure requirements in the financial centre into line with new Basel standards.
Hong Kong banks protected from EU crisis
Wednesday 23 Nov 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong’s banks are well buffered from the European debt crisis thanks to their wide pool of overseas funding, according to a new report card by Fitch. The credit rating agency concluded on…
Wednesday 23 Nov 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong’s banks are well buffered from the European debt crisis thanks to their wide pool of overseas funding, according to a new report card by Fitch. The credit rating agency concluded on…
US sixty-ninth in ease of paying tax list
Friday 11 Nov 2011 | Will Henley
Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland are among the least burdensome international financial centres for paying taxes according to a new survey by PWC, the World Bank and International Finance…
Friday 11 Nov 2011 | Will Henley
Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland are among the least burdensome international financial centres for paying taxes according to a new survey by PWC, the World Bank and International Finance…
Hong Kong rejects ‘race to the bottom’
Monday 31 Oct 2011 | Will Henley
The chief executive of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has said he wants to avoid an international regulatory “race to the bottom”. Ashley Alder told a conference of the Investment…
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Monday 31 Oct 2011 | Will Henley
The chief executive of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has said he wants to avoid an international regulatory “race to the bottom”. Ashley Alder told a conference of the Investment…
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- ABI: UK insurers must keep EU links
- EU Parliament site hit by hacktivists
- George Soros: New year, same crisis
- FSB: Swiss regulator needs more teeth
- OCC: Deriv fears are an overreaction
- ‘Major wave’ of Solvency II drafts in May
- IMF paper urges Aus bank capital boost
- BoE: Limit bonuses to boost bank capital
- 2012 vision: Increased regulatory exposure looms
- Barnier offers hope to NYSE/Boerse
- Esma rushes short selling consultation
- Bowles re-elected as Econ chair
- Hoogervorst hints at accounting slowdown
- Asia in the year of the dragon
- Barnier: FTT will not be forced on UK
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