12/25/2014
The approved banks include Zhejiang Wangshang Bank, in which Alibaba holds a 30 percent stake, Wenzhou Minshang Bank, Tianjin Jincheng Bank and Shanghai Huarui Bank.
12/21/2014
Thomas Kwok, the billionaire co-chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (16), was convicted of conspiring with Hong Kong’s former No. 2 official to commit misconduct in public office. His younger brother, Raymond Kwok, was cleared of all charges.
12/17/2014
Asian central banks have ramped up their intervention in currency markets to stem the sell-off roiling emerging markets, testing the notion that the region is better placed to handle a market rout than during its 1997-1998 financial crisis.
12/17/2014
The chairman of listed investment company CVC, Vanda Gould, set up a bank in the secretive financial centre of Samoa structured to get around Australian tax law