Meredith Corp said on Wednesday that it will explore a sale of Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money magazines as it seeks to streamline its operations following the acquisition of Time Inc. The ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-22
Chinese internet giant Tencent has struck a strategic partnership with videogame developer Ubisoft Entertainment, a deal that includes the acquisition of a small stake in the French firm. Ubisoft anno ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-21
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has stopped an initial coin offering (ICO) and ordered the issuer to refund investors, the first time the city's regulator blocked this new way of f ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
Village Global, an early-stage venture capital firm based in the US, has raised US$100 million for its seed fund, securing the backing of some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, including Facebook fou ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-20
A number of events took place in the banking sector recently, and they all seem to be closely connected. First is the merger of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and China Insurance Regul ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-15
China's securities regulator has slapped a record 5.5 billion yuan (US$871 million) fine on a Xiamen-based firm for manipulating share prices of some Shenzhen-listed firms. The China Securities Regula ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-15
The decade since the global financial crisis has been tumultuous, to say the least. True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-14
China is merging its banking and insurance regulators, giving new powers to policymaking bodies such as the central bank and creating new ministries in the biggest government shake-up in years, Reuter ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
The Hong Kong government, in its recent budget, has allocated more than HK$50 billion to promote the growth of innovative and technology enterprises. The spending, up five-fold compared to such outlay ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-13
As part of initiatives to take Hong Kong into a new era of smart banking, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) last month issued an update on a guideline related to authorization of virtual banks, ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
(Second of a two-part series) The judge held that he had come to the view “that the way the defendant conducted himself towards the investigation and prosecution” in the case against him “warrants the ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
Since 2015, Admiral Investment has reported on the long-term performance of Asia-Pacific and Asian REITs against other asset classes that are commonly considered by institutional and individual invest ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
Though the New Territories is home to 41 percent of Hong Kong's population, the region has only provided 24 percent of the city’s jobs. That means at least 40 percent of the residents in the New Terri ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
Despite the recent fund outflows and softness of the Hong Kong dollar, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city's de facto central bank, appears to be pretty relaxed about the situation. Usin ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-12
