Tag: China

Travel spending is on track to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024, surpassing US$2 trillion, according ...

There are five emerging global trade dynamics in the coming decade, said Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently. Among these five ...

One defining feature of the geopolitical environment in 2024 will be multipolarity, according to Ernst & Young. As a greater ...

IPOs in China are expected to maintain its pace in 2024 while the Hong Kong market would rebound when US ...

Asia Pacific consumers will likely have more to spend on discretionary items in 2024, said Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI) recently. ...

China is currently facing an economic slowdown following the pandemic, which have raised concerns among ratings agencies that led to ...

Top 2024 macro-credit risks include tight liquidity and funding conditions, uncertainty about China’s macroeconomic outlook and property sector, and geopolitical ...

Real salaries in Singapore are estimated to rebound in 2024 as inflation eases, said ECA International recently. Workers in city ...

China’s economic growth is estimated to hit 5.4% in 2023 said IMF recently. The fund raised its forecast for China’s ...

China-based technology company Baidu launched a new version of its artificial intelligence model, Ernie 4.0, which uses algorithms to produce ...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) ordered domestic brokerages’ overseas units to stop opening new stock accounts for onshore investors ...

Global volumes of initial public offerings around the world fell 5% year over year in the first three quarters of ...

Artificial intelligence spending in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to surge to US$78.4 billion by 2027, according to International Data ...

A majority of business and personal activity involving sending Chinese data abroad will no longer need to go under a ...

Shadow credit in China is expected to remain subdued, said Moody’s recently.  According to the firm, shadow banking as a ...

Asia’s emerging market economies are driving global growth and are expected to  outperform advanced counterparts in terms of GDP growth ...

When it comes to the highest expatriate packages, Hong Kong re-entered the top five global locations in 2022 — up ...

Most rated Chinese corporates would see stable outlook in terms of credit quality over the next few months, despite soft ...

China’s economic growth would stay above target though recovery momentum fades, said Fitch recently. Recent data point to a swiftly ...

The IPO markets in China and Hong Kong to become more robust in 2H 2023, said  Deloitte China's Capital Market ...

China’s FMCG sector is showing signs of recovery and building the momentum for a positive rest of 2023 after a ...

China’s financial holding companies regulations curtail systemic risk by bridging a regulatory gap and segregating financial and non-financial risks, said ...

China's reopening will spur a rebound in its economic growth, which in turn will affect economies and businesses across Asia-Pacific ...

IPO markets in China and Hong Kong are estimated to be more vibrant in the rest of 2023, said Deloitte ...

China's reopening will support companies' credit quality as it will ramp up their earnings with a rebound in domestic demand ...

China’s policy, including its reopening and policy measures that refocus on growth rather than regulatory tightening, will likely drive a ...

Retail sales in China is expected to recover after the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions but is likely to be bumpier ...

Asia Pacific outlook for rated nonfinancial companies is stable with still-solid, though slowing, growth and supportive domestic business conditions, said ...

The credit trend for nonfinancial firms in Asia Pacific will remain stable for the remainder of 2022, said Moody’s recently. ...

Global credit risks have risen over the past quarter as the triple threat of rate rises, Europe’s gas crisis and ...

The IPO market in Hong Kong is set to slow in 2002, said Deloitte China recently wen releasing its interim ...

Global growth forecasts for 2022 and 2023 are lower as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and pandemic lockdowns in China add ...

CFOs in China are expected to play broader roles when it comes to sustainability, as a result of the country’s ...

China and Hong Kong IPOs will  accelerate if the pandemic situation in China improves and the Russia-Ukraine War subsides in ...

China's GDP growth is likely to hit 8% in 2021, with a projected 3.7% growth in Q4, said the Peking University, ...

China's shadow banking assets will continue to decline on regulators' continued focus on containing systemic risks in the financial sector, ...

China’s Q3 GDP growth slowed to 4.9%, according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The year-on-year growth rate was ...

China's shadow banking assets will shrink further after falling sharply in the first half (H1) of 2021, as the deadline ...

China's planned new central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital renminbi or e-CNY, could shake up the country's e-payments industry ...

FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) sales growth in China remains subdued though regaining traction, said Bain & Company recently when ...

Economic recovery and solid capital supplementary bond issuance will support Chinese insurers' solvency in 2021, said Moody’s recently. Solvency ratios ...

Rising demand for goods and services in China, driven by GDP growth, will boost the earnings of most rated companies ...

China's (A1 stable) economic rebound has strengthened and become more broad-based since the beginning of 2021, said Moody's recently. Although ...

Refinancing risk in China is increasing for some finance firms, as increased borrowing in recent years have led to a ...

Alibaba affiliate Ant Group is participating in China’s digital currency trial, according to a report by China Securities Journal. MYbank ...

A CFO survey by Deloitte revealed that finance leaders in China see the country as a key growth driver in ...

The IPO markets in Hong Kong and China are well supported to continue to perform vibrantly in the rest of ...

The assumption of likely government support will continue for most rated Chinese nonfinancial SOEs (A1 Stable), said Moody’s recently. "We ...

The fall in China's shadow banking activities since the fourth quarter of 2020, reversing the growth over the first three ...

China’s slew of tighter and broader regulations on fintech activities will curb systemic risk from under-regulated fintech growth but will ...

China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE will test central bank digital currencies in cross-border payments, according to a recent ...

EY has joined China's Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium (FISCO), a non-profit organisation dedicated to the use of blockchain for financial ...

The pandemic shock has increased the vulnerability of Asia's weaker credits though Asia’s China-led economic recovery is set to pull ...

The broad downward trend in China's shadow banking activities continued though the country supported its economic recovery from the pandemic, ...

The coronavirus crisis will have a long-lasting impact on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including rising credit strains across ...

Financially weak privately-owned enterprises (POEs) in China will face more liquidity and refinancing difficulties in the upcoming months as investors ...

Coronavirus-related stimulus and sizeable infrastructure spending will drive a significant rise in overall public sector debt to 45% of GDP ...

China is increasingly focused on the quality of economic growth, over the pace of economic growth, said Moody's Investors Service ...

China is the most complex jurisdiction for financial compliance in Asia Pacific while Hong Kong is the easiest, said TMF ...

Chinese onshore and offshore corporate bond defaults will continue to rise over the next 12 months due to the country's ...

Financial holding companies in China are required to have at least 5 billion yuan (US$731.74 million) in capital, according to ...

China’s August PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index) dropped slightly to 51.0 from July’s 51.1, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.  ...

The extension of a deadline for Chinese financial institutions to comply with new asset-management rules will probably ease pressures facing ...

China's outbound investment continued to decline amid the coronavirus pandemic, said EY recently. The country’s overall outbound direct investment (ODI) ...

China's moderate policy support and the lack of a growth target for 2020 suggest that recovery from the coronavirus recession ...

China said its GDP was up 3.2% in Q2, compared with a year ago. Economists polled by Reuters expected a lower ...

Listings in greater China grew by 29% and the amount of money raised soared 72% from last year in the ...

China has already been in recession as the country’s economy shrank in Q2 from a year earlier, said China Beige ...

While only 15 companies — about 6% —of the 256 non-financial companies Moody’s rates in China have high exposure to ...

The absence of a GDP growth target together with the announced fiscal support measures indicate that China’s recovery from the ...

Moody's Investors Service said recently in a new report that Chinese insurers' solvency remains strong due to higher earnings from ...

The shadow financing system in China will come under growing pressure in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic takes a toll ...

The average monthly rent for expats in Singapore has risen for the first time in five years, said ECA recently ...

While more than 80% of large firms in China have started to resume operation since the last two weeks according ...

While Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the country should focus on maintaining employment amid the conronavirus outbreak, about 5 million ...

Daily data on traffic congestion and coal consumption suggest that the Chinese economy overall is operating about 25% below its ...

While huge uncertainties remain over the impact of the coronavirus on China's economy, Fitch Ratings has come up with two ...

A protracted pause in Chinese activity could be disruptive for certainsupply chains such as chemicals, transport equipment, textile andelectronics, according ...

China’s GDP expanded 6%in Q4 2019, according to the country’s official numbers. In the entire year of 2019, the country’s ...

China’s PPI (producer price index) in December fell 0.5% from a year ago, according to data from the National Bureau ...

While China has attempted to crack down on shadow banking activities, unregulated lending is in fact growing, said China Beige ...

China’s GDP growth won’t drop below 6% in 2020 and will hit 6.1% this year, wrote Sheng Songcheng, a former ...

Moody’s Investors Services said today its outlook for China's financial institutions over the next 12 months is negative because slowing ...

China’s bond default is about to break its 2018 record, according to a Bloomberg report.Data compiled by Bloomberg indicates that ...

China lowered its new benchmark lending rate on Wednesday, in an attempt to give a boost to the slowing economy ...

After nearly four decades of rapid growth, China has entered a new normal of slower growth. The country will need ...

While there’s skeptism toward China’s reported economic growth numbers, Morningstar said in a recent report that the country’s Q3 GDP ...

China reports a year-on-year GDP growth rate of 6% for Q3 2019, the slowest since Q1 of 1992, The country’s ...

While there are frequent reports of China’s slowing economy, ACCA said many Chinese companies will become global over the next ...

Banks in Asia's trade-dependent developed markets would face the most pressure on their credit profiles in the event of a ...

In 2019, the number of insolvency cases in China is expected to keep growing but at a slower pace. Find ...

Amid its currency drop below the “psychological barrier” of 7 and the intensifying trade war with the US, China—with its ...

The People’s Bank of China set its daily reference rate at 7.0039 per dollar, the weakest since Apr 21, 2008.  ...

China’s central bank—the People’s Bank of China—set the Chinese yuan’s official reference point at a stronger point than the fixing ...

China’s Q2 GDP expanded 6.2% year-on-year, slower than Q1’s 6.4% and is the weakest since 1992. For the first half ...

China’s foreign exchange reserves increased more than expected in June, according to data from the People’s Bank of China on ...

Chinese CFOs are enhancing their analytical skills and looking for other ways to support strategic decision-making.