SoftBank Group Corp. announced on Friday a second Vision Fund aimed at investing in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, saying it has secured memoranda of understandings (MOUs) for about US$108 b ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-26
Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He defeated Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in an election decided by 160,000 members of the Conservative Party. There are several burning ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-25
The biggest shareholders in China’s new Nasdaq-style STAR Market lost a combined US$1 billion in the second day of trade on Tuesday, a day after the board’s roaring debut created three new billionaire ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc. will pay up to US$700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers, Reuters reports. While it was the ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-23
Lufax, one of China’s largest online wealth management platforms that is backed by financial giant Ping An Insurance (02318.HK, 601318.CN), plans to exit its once-core peer-to-peer lending (P2P) busin ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-19
There is a good reason why every civilized country in the world tightly regulates its financial system. The 2008 global financial crisis, after all, was largely the result of rolling back financial re ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-17
Budweiser APAC scrapped its plan to raise up to HK$76 billion in a Hong Kong listing, a deal that could have marked the world's biggest IPO this year. Last month, Hutchison Chi-Med, a biopharmaceutica ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-17
國際貨幣基金組織（the International Monetary Fund）總裁拉加德（Christin ...全文
名家論壇Project Syndicate2019年07月16日
Vegan startup Right Treat plans to launch its plant-based pork substitute Omnipork in mainland China as early as the third quarter of this year, founder David Yeung told mainland media outlet 36Kr. Th ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
Since the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID) was created 22 years ago, it has lifted millions out of poverty, sent millions of children to school, and saved millions of li ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-16
Gold prices have been on a wild ride. Between 2000 and 2011, they rose from US$280 to around US$1,900 per ounce before falling back to US$1,050 in 2015. Currently, they are trading at around US$1,400 ...More
EJ Insight2019-07-15
