Crowdfunding is not a modern invention. As scholar Nadine Scholz points out, the construction of the plinth of the Statue of Liberty was possible only after 160,000 New York citizens made donations in ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
Smartphones today allow users not only to easily compare prices of hotel rooms, trade stocks and do their online banking but also to gain access to wealth management services. As private bankers embra ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
Financial technology, which aims to make financial services more efficient, can be applied to four main areas in the private banking industry, helping bankers and clients save time. These are advice a ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-18
Hong Kong is seeing rising demand for experts in data science which has wide applications in the banking and securities industries. "The financial industry has always been a big part of Hong Kong. We ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-17
Mainland authorities have issued new measures for the stock market after halting the homecoming of US-listed Chinese stocks. The China Securities Regulatory Commission has reportedly prevented listed ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-13
Hong Kong is lagging behind Singapore in financial technology (FinTech) development due to the lack of a proper regulatory framework for the sector, an expert said. Though authorities have begun to s ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-09
The China Internet Development Foundation and the Chinese Financial Association of Hong Kong recently signed an agreement on fintech cooperation. In a blog post, Norman Chan, chief executive of the Ho ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-03
The development of internet-based businesses has removed the role of the middleman in many sectors. Uber and Airbnb are two examples. Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) used to rely heavily ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-29
Many of us have had a bad experience with phone banking, where you have to patiently navigate the service options, one after another, before getting to the choice you want. DBS is doing something abou ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-27
Hong Kong government will roll out a variety of initiatives to complement industry efforts in relation to innovation, especially in the field of Fintech, Financial Secretary John Tsang said on Monday. ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
Hong Kong had an Internet Finance Summit in the city last weekend, with top industry players in attendance. Now, it's time to ask this question: what progress has the territory achieved in financial t ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-19
Hong Kong’s economy is likely to encounter quite serious challenges in the coming two or three years. A study released by the University of Hong Kong predicts the city’s economy will grow 1.5 percent ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-12
US billionaire Warren Buffett had once recommended that the cash left to his wife be invested 90 percent in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund, preferably a Vanguard fund, and the remainder in short-te ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
Investors are operating in a world where they want a "new normal", based on an expectation that their managers should prioritize transparency and ethical standards. No longer do investors simply deman ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-01
Hong Kong is tightening up cyber security and risk assessment to protect the banking system from financial fraud. The initiative will be overseen by the newly established Fintech Facilitation Office, ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
Not only the stock market bubble burst in China last year. It was also the year the mainland’s internet lending bubble burst. Almost 900 peer-to-peer lending platforms went belly up last year, three t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
Norman Chan Tak-Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), wrote recently in his blog that technological innovation can foster “financial inclusion”. At first glance of the artic ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
About 500 investors of Ezubao, a peer-to-peer lending platform, protested at the headquarters of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China's top anti-corruption agency, in Beijing. They ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
Ireland, which has won accolades for getting its economy back on track after a post-2008 downturn, is now aiming to expand its external trade by strengthening links with China, particularly in food in ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-24
As venture capital investors, we are constantly looking for positive fat tails, companies that have the potential to generate extreme positive outcomes. At the same time, not all fat tails are positiv ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
