The Aporia · Singapore beefs up rivalry with Hong Kong by picking 5 firms to boost equity market

Daisy Wu

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🔮 Financial heavyweights will share their thoughts on macroeconomic headwinds, including elevated interest rates and AI regulatory scrutiny When hundreds of global finance leaders converge in Hong Kong this week, the question on their minds will be whether traditional investment strategies remain viable against escalating geopolitical friction and the rapid ascent of artificial intelligence.

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🔮 The Hong Kong-listed hotpot chain said in a stock exchange filing on Monday night that it would fund the loan from internal resources and charge interest at 0.6 percentage points above the one-month Hong Kong interbank offered rate.

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🔮 Zou, a former vice-minister of finance in China, said member states increasingly viewed modern infrastructure as a “force of transformation” that could strengthen their economies over the long term rather than simply as physical assets.

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🔮 Chinese regulators push patient capital, reshape US$4.5 trillion mutual fund industry towards long-term holdings as foreign investors weigh risks against thin IPO pipelines China is betting that patient capital, rather than quick trades, will define its next phase of growth – a wager that has taken on new resonance since Warren Buffett stepped down last week after growing Berkshire Hathaway into a US$1 trillion empire over six decades.

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🔮 The local exchange is set to study looser listing rules – including adjusted market-capitalisation thresholds – for technology companies of “strategic importance” while broadening secondary listing channels by adding the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange to its recognised-bourse list.

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🔮 Brokerages will be required to establish clawback mechanisms to recover bonuses and performance pay from employees who violate ethical standards or regulatory rules.

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🔮 Based in Shanghai, she will oversee institutional sales coverage across rates, spread products, foreign exchange, commodities and equity derivatives.

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🔮 “There will not be any cap to it,” Yue said, adding that the facility’s quota could be expanded as demand increased and existing capacity was well used.

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Singapore beefs up rivalry with Hong Kong by picking 5 firms to boost equity market Five global asset managers appointed to spearhead the plan aimed at lifting liquidity and expanding trading activity beyond blue-chip stocks Amundi, Franklin Templeton, HSBC Asset Management, M&G Investments and Natixis Investment Managers were named on Tuesday as part of the third batch of mandates awarded under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Equity Market Development Programme. asserted

managers → beef → Programme

The programme, launched with S$5 billion in February 2025 and enlarged to S$6.5 billion this February, aims to crowd in private capital alongside public funds to boost liquidity and broaden trading activity beyond Singapore’s largest blue-chip stocks, authorities said. asserted

authorities → launch → stocks

Alongside the manager appointments, MAS committed an additional S$20 million to a grant scheme designed to support market-making activities for roughly 80 small and mid-cap companies through the end of 2028. asserted

MAS → commit → 2028

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