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Money Matters

Money Matters
Powerful, penetrating, weekly analysis that takes readers behind the headlines of major deals and market moves in Hong Kong and mainland China and gives them a fresh perspective on what is really going on.
Bull statues near screens showing the Hang Seng stock index and stock prices outside Exchange Square, in Hong Kong, February 3, 2026. Photo: Reuters
Wealth management

DBS survey shows Chinese investors eye Hong Kong, US to weather volatility

Stocks in mainland markets have underperformed this year, with the Shanghai Composite Index down 3.9 per cent year to date as of Wednesday.

Yuan

China’s money launderers exploited a gem of a loophole - Beijing just plugged it

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Banking & finance

Video | Money Machine Part 1: When Mao’s former barefoot doctor helped a US fund buy a Chinese state bank

International Women's Day

‘I’m my own hero’: independent women fuel China’s booming ‘she economy’

Chinese women comprise the world’s third-largest consumer market – close to the combined retail markets of Germany, France and the United Kingdom – and have reshaped the nation’s economic trajectory.

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Chinese women comprise the world’s third-largest consumer market – close to the combined retail markets of Germany, France and the United Kingdom – and have reshaped the nation’s economic trajectory. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
China stock market

Chinese stocks face potential sell-off on growth, stimulus setbacks

Are Chinese stocks at bargain-basement levels? BCA Research cautions against betting on full-scale stimulus as policymakers stay the course on structural reforms in the economy.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka aims to tax road accidents in a drastic austerity budget

Nation’s roads among world’s most dangerous with around 3,000 fatalities and 25,000 seriously injured each year.

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Chinese offshore investment

Allowing Chinese to invest more abroad seen as way to ease economic slowdown

Liberalising China’s markets could help generate greater returns for citizens via overseas investments, according to a former official in charge of international payments.

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A former official under China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange said national policymakers may want to encourage citizens to generate higher investment returns abroad. Photo: AFP
Consumer protection in Hong Kong

Borrower hit with 72 per cent service charge on US$32,000 loan

Intermediary said a loan had been arranged but a service fee of HK$180,000 would be charged, leaving just HK$70,000 for the borrower.

United States

Billionaire shocks 400 college graduates with promise to pay off their student debt

Billionaire investor and philanthropist Robert Smith was giving the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta when he deviated from his prepared remarks to make a special announcement.

Video | Russia and China band together to ‘reduce world’s reliance on US dollars’

Russia and China are ‘working together to reduce the world’s reliance on US dollars’

Billionaires are richer than ever before, and China’s minting the most

Richest people on Earth increased their wealth by a fifth to US$8.9 trillion, says Swiss bank UBS

Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, is the wealthiest person on Earth. Photo: Bloomberg
Sex and relationships

The Naked Truth | Love – what’s money got to do with it? Quite a lot, actually

Couples looking for romance should be clear what they want from a relationship: a lavish lifestyle, financial security or emotional riches. Some experts offer guidance.

Investing

Just a third of Hongkongers trust financial advisers, survey finds

Blowing Water

Blowing Water | If you’re Chinese, being a ‘shameless’ savvy saver is likely to be in your DNA

The desire for a nest egg comes from a deep sense of responsibility to provide for one’s family and stash cash away for a rainy day, Luisa Tam explains

If you’re Chinese, then thrift is in your DNA, Luisa Tam says. Photo: Shutterstock
ICBC

ICBC ordered by Fed to boost money-laundering safeguards

US central bank instructs Chinese lender to establish a system that properly assesses risks associated with products and customers, including ‘politically exposed persons’, at its New York branch

An ICBC branch in Hong Kong. It is considered the world’s biggest lender with a market capitalisation of US$356 billion and assets well over US$3 trillion. Photo: Bloomberg
City Weekend

How Hongkongers rely on loan clubs and pawn shops for money

A look at the fascinating underground economies in use for centuries

State-owned enterprises

Money Matters | Is the baby step in Unicom’s mixed ownership worth cheering for?

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Stocks

Money Matters | Confessions of a market maker in Hong Kong’s penny stocks fiasco

Small investors holding placards protest outside the Legislative Council on July 31, 2002 to express their discontent over a penny-stock crash. Photo: AP
HK handover 20th anniversary

Money Matters | Capitalism with Chinese characteristics is here to stay

After China’s cash crunch, has ‘Mother PBOC’ spoiled her ‘kids’?

Stocks

Money Matters | How the gravy train chugs along in China’s funding drought

A train runs through the Whistling Dune Bay in Dalad Qi in Ordos, in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Located to the east of Kubuqi Desert, the Whistling Dune Bay was developed as a tourist destination since 1984. After years of improvement, it became a landmark for tourism industry of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Photo: Xinhua
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Trust in an accountant speaks volumes of Beijing’s priorities

A display board shows the falling Hang Seng Index during morning trading on the first day of trading after Lunar New Year holidays at the Hong Kong Stocks Exchange in Hong Kong, China February 11, 2016. Photo: REUTERS
Television Broadcasts (TVB)

Money Matters | The identity of TVB’s true controller lays bare for all to see

Regulation

Money Matters | Xi is picking his battles, and letting old power brokers be, for now

China Unicom

Money Matters | Unicom’ mixed ownership sets China’s reforms backward

Whoever ends up with a stake in China United Network will be operating in a tailor made straightjacket.

Money Matters | How a self-made Chinese tycoon becomes too big to fail

Loans beget shares, which beget more loans, and letters of credit, which beget more loans, and cash

Analysis | The magic went out of Huishan’s wizardry

New | Roller coaster ride exposes weaknesses on Hong Kong’s GEM

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