Financial Services
Debate on Appropriation Bill closes
Voting to be carried out soon.
Hong Kong inks tax pact with Qatar
To prevent double taxation.
Hong Kong a model for building renminbi-denominated businesses
Taiwan can learn a lot about this from Hong Kong.
HKEx posts 1% rise in net income
Q1 profit depressed by higher costs.
Government grants banking licence to CIMB Bank Berhad
Licensed banks in Hong Kong now at 155.
HSBC almost doubles pre-tax profit
Cost cutting main reason for jump to US$8.4 billion in Q1.
Guess which bank will suffer big-time from 20% decline in home prices
This bank's earnings will decline 15%.
Hong Kong inks tax pact with Malaysia
Aims to avoid double-taxation.
Hong Kong to ink tax pact with Jersey, Canada, and Austria
To prevent double taxation.
Exchange Fund's total assets trickled down to $2.8861 trillion
Foreign currency assets rose $5.2b.
Hong Kong's expenditure hits $377.3b
As surplus reached $64.8b.
RMB deposits in Hong Kong edged up 2.5%
But overall foreign currency deposits dipped.
Approved mortgage loans jumped 16.1% to $21.6b
As primary market transactions climbed a whopping 69.5%.
Citi appoints Christopher Laskowski as Hong Kong head of corporate, investment banking
Christopher Laskowski appointed to post.
Government doubles bond programme to $200b
To strengthen Hong Kong's edge in gobal finance.
Hong Kong inks tax pact with Guernsey
To avoid double taxation and tax evasion.