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[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Hong Kong, April 21st 2026 — HashKey Group's asset management arm, HashKey Capital, today announced a comprehensive strategic upgrade to build an end-to-end boutique asset management company. The company expands beyond VC investment to asset management by covering diversified vehicles and asset types. This forms a full ecosystem spanning primary and secondary markets, yield strategies, customized solutions, and......

Hong Kong stocks fell in early trading on Wednesday, with other regional markets mixed, as investors remained wary of tensions in the Middle East despite US President Donald Trump saying he would extend a ceasefire with Iran. The Hang Seng Index dropped 0.9 per cent to 26,242.56 as of 9.30am. On the Chinese mainland, the CSI 300 Index slid 0.4 per cent and the Shanghai Composite Index retreated 0.3 per cent. The day before a a two-week truce with Iran was set to expire, Trump said he would......

Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) battery producer, has unveiled its upgraded technologies – including lighter battery packs and faster charging mode – which are expected to accelerate the global automotive industry's electrification drive. The company, which holds more than a 40 per cent share of the global market, aimed to set a healthy tone for the Chinese EV sector to implement its go-global strategy, focusing on constant technological......

Mainland China's insurance companies have emerged as major cornerstone investors in Hong Kong initial public offerings (IPOs) as they seek higher returns and benefit from Beijing's policy support for insurers to invest in equity markets. Ping An Insurance (Group), Taikang Life Insurance, New China Life Insurance, Dajia Life Insurance and China Post Life Insurance were among the key players that invested more than US$250 million across about 11 IPOs so far this year, according to UBS data. Their......

Greater China's private equity market continued to recover last year amid expectations of a market improvement, but looking ahead, fundraising will remain selective and performance-driven, while geopolitical uncertainties are the largest variable for the markets this year, according to Bain & Co. Improving exit conditions and continued capital supply could offer attractive opportunities for well-positioned investors despite intensifying capital competition and a widening gap between top-tier and......

Healthcare leadership today requires more than operational oversight. It demands structural vision: the ability to design institutions that can withstand demographic pressure, technological disruption and rising patient expectations. It is no surprise, then, that for Dr Kenneth Tsang, Regional CEO of IHH Healthcare North Asia and Chief Executive Officer of Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong, scale is a target, sustainability is the ambition. Preferring to describe himself as an architect, he has......

The United States House Select Committee on China recently released a report on artificial intelligence. Titled “Buy What It Can, Steal What It Must: China's Campaign to Acquire Frontier AI Capabilities”, it captures a hardening view in Washington that Beijing's artificial intelligence rise is closely tied to both market access and security concerns. Whether fully substantiated or not, such beliefs are increasingly shaping the policy lens through which technology competition between the two......

The mounting challenges Apple faces in China will test John Ternus, the newly appointed CEO, as analysts watch if he tries to replicate his predecessor Tim Cook's frequent “charm offensives” in the world's largest smartphone market. “I'd like to see if the new CEO can charm Chinese consumers as well as government ministers, just as Tim Cook has,” said Bryan Ma, vice-president of client devices research at IDC. Apple announced on Tuesday that Ternus, 50, would be the new CEO effective September 1......

HSBC Holdings has rejected allegations linking it to a money laundering case involving Iran, with chairman Brendan Nelson saying the bank was not a party to the matter and had only been asked to provide information. Responding to a shareholder at an informal meeting in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Nelson said HSBC had no records related to the transactions in question. “This is a case where HSBC is not a party, but in fact has only been asked to provide information relating to transactions that......

Behind China's landmark crackdown on the e-commerce and food-delivery sectors lies a darker narrative of resistance, secrecy and violence, after regulators uncovered a vast network of “ghost” bakeries and imposed a record fine on seven major platforms. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) levied a 3.6 billion yuan (US$528 million) fine on seven platforms run by PDD Holdings, Meituan, JD.com, Alibaba Group Holding and ByteDance, with the probe revealing a hidden office, violent......

A consortium led by Sino Land and Great Eagle Holdings, alongside two major mainland Chinese developers, has won the tender for the Kam Sheung Road Station Phase Two development, signalling continued confidence in Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis and its long-term growth prospects. The group – which also includes state-backed developers China Overseas Land & Investment and China Merchants Land – plans to invest more than HK$13 billion (US$1.7 billion) to build high-quality residential projects......

Hong Kong's commercial property market attracted US$1.6 billion in investment in the first quarter, up 41 per cent from a year earlier, as demand for office, retail and hotel assets picked up amid improving liquidity, according to JLL. Investment volumes could receive a further boost from global investors looking to redeploy their capital amid the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran, the property consultancy said in a report on Tuesday. “With Asia increasingly perceived as a relatively......

The South China Morning Post received six honours at the State Street Institutional Press Awards Asia-Pacific 2025 on Tuesday. The awards, which recognise outstanding news reporting on institutional finance across Asia-Pacific (APAC), drew a record 246 submissions this year from eight economies – mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and France. Most notably, SCMP veteran Enoch Yiu received the Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism Award. The......

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has released its latest open-source flagship model, Kimi K2.6, as domestic tech giants including Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent issued a consensus to promote open source, even as some continue to invest in closed systems. The move highlights the varied business strategies of Chinese AI companies, as differences in growth and maturity shape their commitment to open source. Unveiled on Monday, Kimi K2.6 brings upgrades in long-horizon coding,......

A long-standing pricing gap between the mainland China-listed and Hong Kong shares of dual-listed companies has narrowed – and in some cases reversed – as global investors re-rate China's technology companies. The Hang Seng AH Premium Index, a widely watched gauge of the valuation gap between dual-listed companies' A shares trading on mainland exchanges and their H shares in Hong Kong, has remained below 120 in recent sessions, down sharply from a high of 157.89 in February 2024. The shift has......

As cryptocurrency converges with traditional finance, driving industry growth and mainstream adoption, officials at Hong Kong's Web3 Festival are anticipating the next leap: the emergence of artificial intelligence agents. They say AI agents – which perceive their environment, make decisions and act autonomously around the clock – will need tools to unlock their full economic potential, which crypto can provide through its ability to transfer funds instantly across borders without......

Nvidia supplier Victory Giant surged 50 per cent on its first day of trading following the biggest Hong Kong initial public offering this year, as investor appetite for artificial intelligence stocks weathers uncertainty in the Middle East. The printed-circuit board maker closed at HK$315.00 compared with the HK$209.88 price of shares in its HK$20 billion (US$2.6 billion) IPO. The Guangdong-based company has also jumped fourfold in a year in Shenzhen trading. Victory Giant is the latest in a......

China has announced that it now has the capacity to build up to 50 nuclear reactors simultaneously, as it doubles down on a push to rapidly expand its nuclear power generation and become a global leader in the sector. The figure came from a report released by the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) on Friday, which highlights the country's ability to run dozens of nuclear projects concurrently spanning the full project life cycle – from design to construction. “China's nuclear technology......

Chinese stocks are likely to continue the resilience they have shown since the war in the Middle East began, thanks to haven demand for yuan-linked assets, the green shoots of the property market and the inclusion of tech start-ups in key equity gauges, according to fund managers and investment banks. Optimism about Chinese equities was building after official data showed that home prices in the biggest mainland cities reversed declines and an inflationary trend took hold in March, said money......

Say “open source” and “China” and most people will think of its world-conquering artificial intelligence (AI) large language models. Its open-source computer chips are just as significant. These chips are based on the RISC-V architecture (pronounced risk-five). At last month's Zhongguancun Forum science festival in Beijing, experts celebrated the establishment in China of a complete RISC-V ecosystem. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers recently unveiled their latest Xiangshan processor......