カテゴリー: HSBC
Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government criticsTwo exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been blocked from accessing their pensions, depriving them of tens of thousands of US…
Worsening Sino-US ties, strict Covid rules, and the crackdown on dissent have dented the territory’s fabled allure as a business hub, say expatsIn July 2018, Tara Joseph, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, wrote an article in t…
Meng Wanzhou’s team had sought more time to review new documents after Hong Kong settlement with HSBCA Canada judge has agreed to delay Meng Wanzhou’s US extradition hearings for three months, according to a ruling read in court on Wednesday, handing t…
Bank also reaffirms greater shift towards Asia-Pacific, where most of its earnings come fromHSBC is to reduce its office space around the world by nearly 40% as part of sweeping cost cutting designed to capitalise on new part-office-part-homeworking ar…
Campaigners say the deals revealed in new report are a breach of firms’ human rights responsibilitiesHuman rights groups are demanding that two of Britain’s biggest banks explain why they have lent tens of millions of pounds to a technology company bui…
Ted Hui says move by UK’s biggest bank is act of ‘oppression’ as eight more democracy activists are arrestedA Hong Kong legislator who fled to Europe has called on regulators to investigate the actions of major banks including HSBC, after his accounts …
Bank’s future remains uncertain as it finds itself under pressure from Beijing and Washington HSBC has been a fixture of the Hong Kong economy for more than a century. However, its origins as a financial bridge between Asia and the west have placed it …
Ambassador to London calls extradition treaty suspension ‘blatant’ interference in Chinese affairs and a contravention of international lawChina’s ambassador has accused the UK government of blatantly interfering in China’s internal affairs by suspendi…
More than a dozen people outside Vancouver courtroom with ‘Free Meng’ signs were promised C$100 for two hours’ work on a movieProtesters calling for the release of a senior Chinese telecommunications executive arrested in Canada have admitted they were…