Author: Alessandro Chen Back in March 2021, the NYSE announced it would suspend trading in China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc)’s American depository shares, due to compliance with an executive order banning all Chinese firms on the blacklist. Chinese groups put by the Pentagon on the blacklist are accused of Read more…
With the increasing globalization and growth, China’s bond market value has been steadily growing, with its size lower only to the US one. As one of the main sources to attract foreign capital to China, certain bonds have taken on all sorts of uncanny and funny names in the Chinese Read more…
Author: Alessandro ZhuoHao Hu Anta Sports Products Ltd is a Chinese sportswear multinational corporation engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of branded sportswear. Anta was founded in 1991 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007. With a market cap value of $30.14 Billion, Anta Read more…
Author: Chantelle Lee Assessments conducted by real estate experts at Nomura Holdings concluded that the property market in China has been facing difficulties, as home sales have been down by 40% for the largest developers and it is estimated that 50% of Chinese developers will go bust in the next Read more…
Author: Riccardo Hu Tencent Holding Ltd, also known as Tencent, was founded in 1988 and is a Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate and holding company. It is the 12th largest company worldwide by market cap with a value of $483.20 Billion, providing various Internet-related services and products, ranging from Read more…
Author: Stella Hu On March 5, China released its most important policy document – the “2022 Government Work Report” – setting out the main economic and development tasks to pursue during the year. Important decisions were made concerning tax incentives programs. Besides raising the R&D expenses deduction ratio of technology-based Read more…
Author: Francesca Hu Hosting the Winter Olympics is costing China billions of dollars, a scale of expenditure that has made the event less appealing to many cities around the world. But China looks at the Games with a different calculus. Most important of all to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, the Read more…
Author: Alessandro Chen In the early morning of February 24, Putin declared the beginning of “a special military operation” in Ukraine. Minutes later, explosions in Kharkiv and Kyiv followed. To penalize Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the US and EU imposed sanctions aimed at crippling its military and economic Read more…
Authors: Basile Theaud (BCSA), Carmen M. Ammendola (BSBI) When talking about businesses and how they are developing their personal brand identities and marketing strategies, it is impossible as of today not to consider the fundamental role that China covers, as the second largest market of the world. With a GDP Read more…
Author: Silvia Gramegna WeChat, in Chinese 微信 (Wēixìn), is a multi-purpose instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment software created by Tencent. The Shenzhen-based multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate and holding company first released the application in 2011. By 2018, WeChat had already surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, thus Read more…