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Firms head east to avoid high Central office rents

BNP Paribas and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are amongst the first to move.

Firms head east to avoid high Central office rents

BNP Paribas and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are amongst the first to move.

Economy expected to moderate at 3% in 2018

The slowdown in China’s growth may drag economic expansion.

More sites to be up for tender from January to March 2018

The government will provide more land supply despite meeting housing target.

Banks apply tech, data analytics to combat money laundering

One of the major amendments is to leverage technology on non-face-to-face account opening.

Total port cargo throughput up 5.3% to 70.9m tonnes in Q3

Inward port load from Malaysia registered high growth.

Tourist arrivals up 6.6% to 5.28 million in October

Visitors from South Korea and Japan posted the largest growth.

Office rents up 0.3% to $71.6 psf in October

The expansion of PRC companies in Central drove rents upward.

Fintech will go mainstream in Hong Kong by 2018: KPMG

The industry is entering a new era of Smart Banking.

Property sales down 11.8% to $66.7b in November

There were a recorded 7,601 sale and purchase agreements last month.

Home sales down 6% to 5,289 sold units in September

However, new residential launches were still warmly received.

HKEX unveils ID model for investors in northbound trading

It plans to identify orders at the client level for market monitoring purposes.

Hotel occupancy rate unchanged at 87% in September

The lack of major events may have been the cause of stabilisation.

Fed rate hikes can cool heated property market

The IMF described Hong Kong’s property market as booming and overvalued.

Residential sales volume may hit 63,000 units in 2018

Most of the new housing supply will be built on New Territories.

9 in 10 CIOs prefer contractual IT employees

Demand for temporary workers with software development skills is strongest.