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First it was the Hong Kong-Shanghai Stock Connect that was making all the headlines, with plans to give foreign investors access to China stocks and mainland investors access to Hong Kong stocks. Now it’s the turn of Taiwan and Singapore, with the two exchanges signing an agreement on September 10 to develop a cross-border trading link. -
Hong Kong's and Shanghai’s stock exchanges and clearing houses finalised on Thursday an agreement to set up their Stock Connect mutual equity trading scheme. The pilot initiative will work alongside the successful RQFII quota programme to lay the foundation for the gradual opening of China’s capital account.
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Heptagon Capital, a UK-based asset manager, has partnered with China's Harvest Global Investments to open fundraising for the first daily traded and actively managed China A shares UCITS fund. Meanwhile Ashmore Group, another UK fund manager, has announced three SICAV funds covering Chinese debt and equities.
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It is probably no coincidence that in the week Alibaba is due to start pre-marketing its $20bn IPO, the Hong Kong Exchange has launched a concept paper on whether it should allow dual class shareholdings.
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Record performance in RBC’s capital markets business helped the bank to rack up better than expected profits last week, taking its shares to all time highs.
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The mutual market access (MMA) equity trading scheme between Hong Kong and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is on track to launch in October after a successful two day compatibility test for brokers was completed last weekend. But even though the clock is ticking, there remain questions over how investors will be taxed and Shenzhen is also looking to get in on the act, writes Rev Hui.
