國際合規新聞報道@規佬筆記 (2)

Moving on. 呢單 IPO 因為招股書一句陳述而搞到格隆匯號召杯葛，中資經紀行紛紛「下架」 (係嘅，其實銀行或者經紀行唔係老奉隻隻 IPO 都畀客戶抽嘅) 。 Underwriter 之一嘅中國通海就出嚟話唔同意招股書嘅表述，而負責上市嘅律師樓以至有份審批嘅港交所雖然都冇出聲，但睇嚟日後對住呢啲涉及肺炎嘅陳述句，都會更加小心，避免傷及中華人民共和國人民嘅感情。 老老竇竇，呢啲 risk disclosure statement 真係天下文章一大抄，隨便上返 HKEx 個網睇堆招股書同埋 SFC 互惠基金嘅銷售文件都可以手到拿來。 Source: https://hk.appledaily.com/.../202.../HGDZADIYFPMOMGDKU6WXLSZAHQ/ 【白色恐怖】智勤包銷商：絕不同意「新冠病毒源自武漢」表述

Marcus Rashford was suffering little personal hardship when the coronavirus lockdown began. After all, the 22-year-old is a multi-millionaire striker at Manchester United, the English Premier League club that is one of the world's glitziest football teams. But with matches suspended and time on his hands, the star player reflected on his hardscrabble upbringing in Wythenshawe, a working class district in south Manchester, when he relied on his local school to provide free breakfasts and lunches.

Japan is considering visa waivers, tax advice and free office space for asset managers, traders and bankers from Hong Kong in a campaign to cast Tokyo as the best exit strategy should a crisis force them out of the semi-autonomous territory.

Wirecard's explanation for a €1.9bn hole in its balance sheet was further undercut on Sunday when the head of the Philippine central bank said the money never entered the country. The German fintech group revealed on Thursday that the funds were missing and that its auditor, EY, had not been able to trace the money, supposedly held in escrow accounts at two Asian banks.

【明報專訊】近年不少中資大開水喉來港收購，來自深圳的京基集團近年亦投資多隻港股，包括京基金融（1468）。京基第二代、京基金融主要股東陳家俊表示，京基金融是「第一隻掛上京基品牌的港股」，會以集團資源支持其發展，除了現有1、4、9號牌，亦有意推進申請6號牌、信託牌照及發展虛擬銀行等。不過，京基金融管理層透露，2017年欲以22億元收購安盛旗下的安盛財富管理（香港）（下簡稱AXA），因時間及作價...

【明報專訊】港區國安法即將落實，移民、離岸資產等再成市場熱話。京基金融（1468）旗下京基資產管理董事總經理及首席投資官侯鎮基，以及京基優越財富管理董事總經理及行政總裁馮嘉諾均認為，近年地緣政治風險增加，加速令富豪思考如何管理財富，但更重要是富二代、富三代人際網絡、教育、投資等需求均與上一代非常不同，「唔再係靠一個banker幫忙起家，跟一個老banker好多年」，更需要專業、可信的團隊，因...

【明報專訊】金管局去年先後發出8個本地虛擬銀行牌照，現時僅得眾安銀行（ZA Bank）及天星銀行開業，大部分仍在試業階段。由發牌至今逾一年，近日有虛銀已上載2019年報，當中由中銀香港（2388）、京東數字科技及怡和集團合資組成的Livi，股本投資達25億元，金額是所有虛銀中最多（見表）。

Citadel Securities and its majority owner Ken Griffin are among the big winners from a boom in retail investing, cashing in on the zero-fee trading that has lured huge numbers of first-time investors to the US stock market.

Over the past two years, Wirecard has been a rollercoaster; at least, that was the metaphor widely used in many German newspaper reports, investor forums and analyst presentations. Good news drove up the fintech group's share price; bad news pushed it down.

The note found on his computer by his parents on June 12, 2020, asked a simple question. "How was a 20 year old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars worth of leverage?" The tragic message was written by Alexander E.

Wirecard's former head Markus Braun was arrested on suspicion of false accounting and market manipulation two days after the company he built into Europe's leading fintech group admitted that €1.9bn of cash reported on its balance sheet probably does "not exist".

Ten days after police raided Wirecard's Singapore office in February 2019 over allegations of accounting fraud, Germany's financial regulator made its own move. BaFin banned investors from betting against Wirecard shares for two months, the first such restriction on an individual company in German stock market history.

Wirecard filed for insolvency after the once high-flying payments group revealed a multiyear fraud that led to the arrest of its former chief executive. In a remarkable collapse of a company once regarded as a European tech champion, Wirecard said in a statement on Thursday morning that it faced "impending insolvency and over-indebtedness".

WhatsApp said it had been blindsided by Brazil's decision to block its digital payments service, just a week after it launched, and accused it of trying to favour its own homegrown system.