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GBA activity improves, but businesses cautious

Business activity in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area showed solid gains in the first quarter of this year, but expectations remained unchanged, indicating businesses remained cautious.

GBA Investment

Giving property investors wings

When asked about the three top factors for property buyers, an estate agent will say “location, location, location” and for investors in Hong Kong as well as the broader Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area “location” is a broad term.

Finance Investment GBA Green Finance

Renminbi role set for upgrade

The height and breadth of China’s advance across the world economic stage over the past five decades has been breath-taking, leaving traders and investors wondering where and how to step in.

Investment Trade Fintech

Thriving in uncertain times

Celebrating two new years just a month apart, Hong Kong is always awash with comments about the coming year in January and February and 2024 is no exception. This year two words appear in every comment: “change” and “uncertainty”.

Investment Technology Green finance

Can-do Hong Kong expands

Ambitious people seeking a can-do city have streamed to Hong Kong for many years, making the city a magnet for talent. This talent magnet is now expanding more than 10 times in size and strength as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area opens up to world business.

Investment Logistics IP

GBA wins vote of confidence

Hong Kong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) will be at the epicentre of a world that sustainably brings prosperity to its population.

Investment Technology GBA ASEAN

GBA labour market loosens

Staff hiring and retention became a headache across the developed and developing world following COVID-19, but a survey of firms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area showed the labour market loosened markedly late last year.

Investment Finance

Policymakers flock to AFF

More than 140 policymakers, international financial and multilateral organisation representatives, financial institutions and corporate leaders from around the world flocked to Hong Kong this week to address the 17th Asian Financial Forum (AFF).

Investment Technology

ASEAN high on GBA business agenda

Hong Kong’s super-connector role is extending across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and many businesses seeking to connect and expand are targeting Southeast Asia.

Trade Investment

Saudi Arabia looks to Hong Kong

Investment advisers often recommend their clients take an adaptable approach to investing and diversify their asset portfolios, and this applies to countries as much as it does to individuals, families and corporations.

Saudi Arabia Investment Trade

UAE takes lead on fintech

With its glittering cities, palm-shaped islands and globe-spanning airlines, the United Arab Emirates has been a leading innovator in the Middle East for many years.

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Global business bodies assemble

Hong Kong is a global financial and trade hub and historical touch point for many members of the Chinese diaspora worldwide, creating a business network that spans the globe.

Trade Finance Investment Marketing

Hong Kong Forum

Hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the Hong Kong Forum returns on 5 and 6 December , an annual gathering of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide.

Industry Trade Investment

India brings opportunities for SMEs

India's rapid economic growth and youthful demographics have boosted industrial innovation and consumption. In 2021, India was Hong Kong's eighth-largest trading partner, the sixth largest economy in the world and ranked second in terms of population.

India Marketing Trade Investment

Hong Kong, Liaoning deepen cooperation

Mineral-rich Northeast China, comprising the coastal Liaoning and landlocked Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, has traditionally been a centre for heavy industry and is now reworking itself as a hub for high-value, high-technology production.

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