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Jeff Rowe, the CEO of Syngenta, at his family farm in the US state of Illinois on September 30, 2025. Photo: Anthony Collins/Handout
IPO

Exclusive | Meet the Illinois farmer sowing the seeds of the world’s biggest IPOs of 2026

Jeff Rowe, a fifth-generation Illinois farmer, runs a Chinese-owned Swiss company in Basel that is aiming for one of the world’s largest IPOs in Hong Kong, due in 2026.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Investor shift from deposits to markets gathers speed: Invesco boss

Family offices

Exclusive | China’s wealthy flock to Hong Kong for global investments, banker says

Women and gender

What it takes to lead HKEX, UBS and Standard Chartered – and still have a life

Fuelled by 4.30am gym sessions, African safaris and bowls of lobster noodles, these CEOs are reshaping Hong Kong’s boardroom culture.

Amy Lo Choi-wan of UBS, Mary Huen Wai-yi of Standard Chartered and Bonnie Chan Yiting of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing are all members of Women Chief Executives Hong Kong (WCE). Photos: Jocelyn Tam and HKEX
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Exclusive | From boardrooms to hiking trails: HKMA courts top bankers with business and leisure

BlackRock’s Larry Fink and General Atlantic’s William Ford will attend the HKMA summit for the first-time.

Banking & finance

Citic Securities rides Hong Kong’s IPO wave, sponsoring dozens of firms

As hedge funds and long-only investors pour into listings, bank’s Hong Kong unit expands to meet demand, head of investment banking says.

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Family offices

Exclusive | Hong Kong sets sights on 220 new family offices in next growth phase

InvestHK launches ‘Family Office 2.0’ to lure global wealth hubs to Hong Kong as race steps up with Singapore.

InvestHK’s Jason Fong says the Family Office 2.0 initiative will not only encourage operators to invest in Hong Kong but also to base their business operations in the city. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Mainland Chinese financial firms seeking strategic Hong Kong base on the rise: Citigroup

Hong Kong is an ideal platform for mainland and international companies aiming to expand globally and pursue opportunities across Asia.

Hong Kong stock market

Exclusive | Hong Kong as good as Wall Street for Chinese tech firms, Goldman Sachs banker says

With its lower costs, growing liquidity, favourable policies and proximity, city’s market has clear advantages over the US, Jacky Leung says.

IPO

Exclusive | Hong Kong ‘critical’ as investors ‘rediscover’ China: Morgan Stanley

City’s capital market lets innovative Chinese companies ‘position longer-term value propositions to the global investor base’, banker says.

Shane Zhang, head of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s capital market bounces back with diverse listings

Hong Kong’s unique ability to attract global capital sets it apart from domestic markets like Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Xu Jia, deputy head of the investment banking department at China International Capital Corp. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Hong Kong stock market

Exclusive | Hong Kong market’s connector role not just for mainland China: Citic boss

The city’s advantages position it to attract top-tier companies from India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan and Singapore, Li Chunbo says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong the launch pad for China’s new financial ideas, UBS China chief says

Hong Kong is showing the world that China is ‘open for business’, as the financial centre provides a bridge for China’s ideas.

Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | Cyberport may use Chinese GPUs at supercomputing centre, CEO says

Cyberport bought four GPUs made by different mainland Chinese chipmakers and has been testing them at its AI lab, CEO Rocky Cheng said.

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The opening ceremony of Cyberport’s Al Supercomputing Centre and Al Lab on December 9, 2024. Photo: May Tse
Banking & finance

Exclusive | The world must rewrite its financial rules for the tokenised future: BIS

The rise of stablecoins poses new challenges to the global infrastructure for instant payment, clearing and settlement, said the gatekeeper of the world’s central banks.

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Shin Hyun-Song, economic adviser and the head of the monetary and economic department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), during an interview in Hong Kong, with a photo of the bank’s headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, behind him on July 14, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Insurance

Retiring AIA chairman Edmund Tse reflects on 64 years with the insurer

Tse presided over the company’s blockbuster IPO and return to mainland China in a career that began in 1961 with a monthly salary of US$76.90.

IPO

Exclusive | ‘Super connector’: the next act for Hong Kong’s stock exchange

As HKEX turns 25, the exchange eyes promoting cross-border listings, fixed income and yuan products in its next chapter, chairman says.

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Banking & finance

Exclusive | HSBC to grow investment bank to serve rising demand for IPOs

The bank said it would restructure to focus on high-return areas like Hong Kong and India, as well as exit low-profitability markets like Europe and the US.

HSBC’s co-CEOs for Asia and Middle East David Liao (right) and Surendra Rosha (left), during an interview at HSBC’s head office in Hong Kong on 5 June 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Luxury CEOs

Luxury watch entrepreneur Jean-Claude Biver on his family-run brand

Jean-Claude Biver returns to luxury watchmaking with a family-run brand, focusing on individuality and craftsmanship, while embracing smaller watch sizes – thanks to input from his son, Pierre Biver.

Wealth management

UK fund manager Schroders to invest more in Hong Kong, CEO says

‘When we think about where wealth is growing the fastest, it is in Asia,’ Richard Oldfield says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | HSBC to offer anti-ageing treatments, medical check-ups at Hong Kong wealth hub

The wealth centre, which will open in the second half, is aimed at the growing silver economy, HSBC Life’s Daisy Tsang says.

Daisy Tsang, CEO of HSBC Life in Hong Kong and Macau, says she strongly believes in Hong Kong’s potential as a hub for wealthy customers. Photo: Sun Yeung
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Sun Life sees Hong Kong as ‘most important’ market in Asia for life insurers

New insurance premiums rose 330 per cent between 2019 and 2024, lifting Sun Life’s ranking to fifth from 12th, according to company data.

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There is a big need to help high net-worth customers with inter-generational financial planning, inheritance or liquidity management, says Manjit Singh, President of Sun Life Asia. Photo: Sun Yeung
Family offices

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s soon-to-open art-storage facility is an incentive for family offices

The complex at Skytopia airport city will be ready this year or early next year and enhance Hong Kong’s role as an art-trading centre.

Banking & finance

‘China’s Goldman’ bets on Hong Kong’s role as offshore yuan hub

With low rates in China, borrowing in yuan is now cheaper than in other currencies, CICC says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong key to StanChart’s US$200 billion new money target: CEO Winters

Bank is developing over 200 use cases for AI, including fraud detection and prevention, anti-money-laundering screening and new products.

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Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters, at SCMP office in Causeway Bay on 17 March 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Insurance

Manulife picks chief actuary Finch as Asia CEO to lead biggest profit centre

Steve Finch will take over as Asia CEO from May 9, replacing Phil Witherington who is heading back to Toronto to become global CEO.

Steve Finch, the incoming president and CEO of Asia at Manulife Tower in Kwun Tong on 18 March 2025. Photo: Sun Yeung
Artificial intelligence

AI-driven blood analysis may be the key to unlocking cancer’s secrets

AI helps researchers recognise patterns in the gene fragments they find in blood plasma, sparking a revolution in the field of epigenetics.

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Biomedicine: Science

Hong Kong doctor bets on blood tests after saving mums from the needle

Lo’s blood tests can potentially reveal more information about patients’ health, from cancers to neurodegenerative conditions to age-related diseases.

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