Hong Kong’s status as Asia-Pacific’s pre-eminent trading hub has taken a battering. Its prestige was built on the foundations of free trade, low tax and limited government interference. But an... Read more

Hong Kong is revamping financial market rulebooks, creating new investment corridors with China, and capitalising on deep offshore renminbi liquidity pools as it looks to reinvent itself in the post-pandemic... Read more

Foreign multinationals operating and investing in China are facing a rapidly changing and less predictable risk landscape driven by a combination of market, regulatory and economic factors. Not least because... Read more

A double warning from the European Central Bank and the Financial Stability Board has given European banks notice that they face a rise in the cost of risk. ECB president... Read more

Private equity-backed companies are struggling to pay back loans, leaving regulators concerned that banks will be exposed should private credit funds collapse. Highly leveraged companies are being hit by rising... Read more