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C-suite interviews
Interviews with corporate executives, featuring chairpersons, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief marketing officers or other C-level business leaders.
Rickie Chan, head of private banking for Greater China and CEO for Hong Kong at Bank of Singapore, poses for a photo on December 3, 2025. Photo: Enoch Yiu
Family offices

Exclusive | Hong Kong favoured as wealth planning platform, bank CEO says

City’s stock market and incentives will continue to attract family offices from around Asia-Pacific, Bank of Singapore’s Hong Kong CEO says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | HKMA teams up with SFC, Insurance Authority to promote fintech over next 5 years

IPO

Exclusive | Meet the Illinois farmer sowing the seeds of the world’s biggest IPOs of 2026

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Investor shift from deposits to markets gathers speed: Invesco boss

‘There are a lot of cash deposits held by people in China that will find their way into the markets,’ Andrew Schlossberg says.

Andrew Schlossberg, Invesco president and CEO, pictured on November 4, 2025. Photo: Edmond So
Family offices

Exclusive | China’s wealthy flock to Hong Kong for global investments, banker says

China Citic Bank International invests in new private banking centre as cross-border wealth customers triple, Wendy Yuen says.

Women and gender

What it takes to lead HKEX, UBS and Standard Chartered – and still have a life

Fuelled by 4.30am gym sessions, African safaris and bowls of lobster noodles, these CEOs are reshaping Hong Kong’s boardroom culture.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Exclusive | From boardrooms to hiking trails: HKMA courts top bankers with business and leisure

BlackRock’s Larry Fink and General Atlantic’s William Ford will attend the HKMA summit for the first-time.

HKMA chief executive Eddie Yue Wai-man plans to show visiting bankers “the real beauty of Hong Kong” during the summit. Photo: Edmond So
Banking & finance

Citic Securities rides Hong Kong’s IPO wave, sponsoring dozens of firms

As hedge funds and long-only investors pour into listings, bank’s Hong Kong unit expands to meet demand, head of investment banking says.

Family offices

Exclusive | Hong Kong sets sights on 220 new family offices in next growth phase

InvestHK launches ‘Family Office 2.0’ to lure global wealth hubs to Hong Kong as race steps up with Singapore.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Mainland Chinese financial firms seeking strategic Hong Kong base on the rise: Citigroup

Hong Kong is an ideal platform for mainland and international companies aiming to expand globally and pursue opportunities across Asia.

Mainland Chinese lenders and Citigroup Hong Kong are partners, not competitors, according to Citi Hong Kong CEO Aveline San. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong stock market

Exclusive | Hong Kong as good as Wall Street for Chinese tech firms, Goldman Sachs banker says

With its lower costs, growing liquidity, favourable policies and proximity, city’s market has clear advantages over the US, Jacky Leung says.

Jacky Leung, Goldman Sachs’ head of Hong Kong coverage. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
IPO

Exclusive | Hong Kong ‘critical’ as investors ‘rediscover’ China: Morgan Stanley

City’s capital market lets innovative Chinese companies ‘position longer-term value propositions to the global investor base’, banker says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s capital market bounces back with diverse listings

Hong Kong’s unique ability to attract global capital sets it apart from domestic markets like Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Hong Kong stock market

Exclusive | Hong Kong market’s connector role not just for mainland China: Citic boss

The city’s advantages position it to attract top-tier companies from India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan and Singapore, Li Chunbo says.

Li Chunbo, chairman and CEO of Citic Securities International. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong the launch pad for China’s new financial ideas, UBS China chief says

Hong Kong is showing the world that China is ‘open for business’, as the financial centre provides a bridge for China’s ideas.

Janice Hu, UBS’ China country head. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | Cyberport may use Chinese GPUs at supercomputing centre, CEO says

Cyberport bought four GPUs made by different mainland Chinese chipmakers and has been testing them at its AI lab, CEO Rocky Cheng said.

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Banking & finance

Exclusive | The world must rewrite its financial rules for the tokenised future: BIS

The rise of stablecoins poses new challenges to the global infrastructure for instant payment, clearing and settlement, said the gatekeeper of the world’s central banks.

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Insurance

Retiring AIA chairman Edmund Tse reflects on 64 years with the insurer

Tse presided over the company’s blockbuster IPO and return to mainland China in a career that began in 1961 with a monthly salary of US$76.90.

AIA chairman Edmund Tse Sze-wing speaks to the media in a briefing on July 9, 2025 at AIA Central. Photo: Enoch Yiu
IPO

Exclusive | ‘Super connector’: the next act for Hong Kong’s stock exchange

As HKEX turns 25, the exchange eyes promoting cross-border listings, fixed income and yuan products in its next chapter, chairman says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | HSBC to grow investment bank to serve rising demand for IPOs

The bank said it would restructure to focus on high-return areas like Hong Kong and India, as well as exit low-profitability markets like Europe and the US.

Luxury CEOs

Luxury watch entrepreneur Jean-Claude Biver on his family-run brand

Jean-Claude Biver returns to luxury watchmaking with a family-run brand, focusing on individuality and craftsmanship, while embracing smaller watch sizes – thanks to input from his son, Pierre Biver.

Former Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver on his eponymous luxury watch brand JC Biver, and embracing smaller watch sizes – thanks to input from his son, Pierre Biver. Photo: Handout
Wealth management

UK fund manager Schroders to invest more in Hong Kong, CEO says

‘When we think about where wealth is growing the fastest, it is in Asia,’ Richard Oldfield says.

Richard Oldfield, group chief executive of Schroders, pictured at the firm’s office in Admiralty on April 14, 2025. Photo: Sun Yeung
Banking & finance

Exclusive | HSBC to offer anti-ageing treatments, medical check-ups at Hong Kong wealth hub

The wealth centre, which will open in the second half, is aimed at the growing silver economy, HSBC Life’s Daisy Tsang says.

Banking & finance

Exclusive | Sun Life sees Hong Kong as ‘most important’ market in Asia for life insurers

New insurance premiums rose 330 per cent between 2019 and 2024, lifting Sun Life’s ranking to fifth from 12th, according to company data.

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Family offices

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s soon-to-open art-storage facility is an incentive for family offices

The complex at Skytopia airport city will be ready this year or early next year and enhance Hong Kong’s role as an art-trading centre.

Jason Fong, global head of family office at InvestHK, the airport art-storage facility will nhance Hong Kong’s role as an art-trading centre. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Banking & finance

‘China’s Goldman’ bets on Hong Kong’s role as offshore yuan hub

With low rates in China, borrowing in yuan is now cheaper than in other currencies, CICC says.

Commuters at the Central subway station in Hong Kong on 18 February 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Banking & finance

Exclusive | Hong Kong key to StanChart’s US$200 billion new money target: CEO Winters

Bank is developing over 200 use cases for AI, including fraud detection and prevention, anti-money-laundering screening and new products.

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Insurance

Manulife picks chief actuary Finch as Asia CEO to lead biggest profit centre

Steve Finch will take over as Asia CEO from May 9, replacing Phil Witherington who is heading back to Toronto to become global CEO.

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