SoftBank Group Corp has agreed to give up board seats and access to sensitive information, take a more passive role in startups and make other concessions to get US government clearance for its techno ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
A mainland Chinese website conducted an interesting poll recently. It asked respondents for their opinion on which would happen first: the China national football team repeating its 2002 success of qu ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
Top finance officials from emerging market economies on Thursday called for a collective global response to resolve ongoing trade tensions within a rules-based trading system, Reuters reports. In a co ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
The head of the International Monetary Fund said the six-month delay of Britain’s exit from the European Union avoids the “terrible outcome” of a “no-deal” Brexit that would further pressure a slowing ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-12
US-based cryptocurrency startup Abra aims to be an all-in-one global investment app, according to founder Bull Barhydt. In a recent interview with EJ Insight, Barhydt, an early Netscape employee, shar ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (000651.CN), the world's largest residential air-conditioner maker, is one of the few successful state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. The company said on Tu ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
Australians will go to the polls in a general election on May 18, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, firing the starting gun on a campaign expected to be fought over taxation, climate cha ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
Klook, a Hong Kong-based booking platform for in-destination tourism services, has announced the completion of a Series D+ funding round worth US$225 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund. The startup s ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
The money-laundering scandals keep rolling in, most recently in Estonia, where a subsidiary of Danske Bank reportedly processed some 200 billion euros (US$225 billion) in suspicious payments from arou ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
Saudi Aramco is set to raise US$12 billion with its first international bond issue after receiving more than US$100 billion in orders, a record breaking vote of market confidence for the Saudi state o ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
The global economy is slowing more than expected and a sharp downturn could require world leaders to coordinate stimulus measures, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday as it cut its forecas ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-10
港產旅遊體驗平台KLOOK（客路）昨天宣布，再獲軟銀願景基金（Vision Fund）的D+輪加注，金額為2. ...全文
今日信報財經新聞StartupBeat 創科鬥室2019年04月10日
Tuandai.com, one of China's major peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, collapsed late last month. Founded in 2011, Tuandai was ranked China’s 14th largest P2P lending platforms and had an outstanding ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
Dante’s Divine Comedy describes one level of hell (the City of Dis) as “Satan’s wretched city … full of distress and torment terrible”. He could well have been describing many modern-day metropolises. ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-09
Grab aims to raise another US$2 billion this year as it ramps up expansion, its chief executive said, just weeks after announcing over US$4.5 billion of funding in what has become Southeast Asia’s lar ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
China’s National Council for Social Security Fund (SSF) announced last week that it would cut its stake in Bank of Communications (BoCom, 03328.HK, 601328. CN) by 2 percent, marking the first time th ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
This year, the world commemorates the anniversaries of two key events in the development of the global monetary system. The first is the creation of the International Monetary Fund at the Bretton Wood ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-08
