The SPAC Craze Reaches China
‘Special Purpose Acquisition Companies’ offer Chinese companies what they want: a quick and easy way to get foreign capital and a foreign listing.
China Breaks the Box Office, Kind Of
And the award for the world’s biggest box office in 2020 goes to, for the first time... China!
Red Curaçao
Curaçao’s fledgling stock exchange intended to attract Latin American companies seeking to raise money from European investors. Instead, Chinese firms came.
China’s Regulatory War on Ant
The author explains how the Chinese government bureaucracy caught up with the world’s hottest financial services firm.
China Comes to the NYSE
China’s biggest listings still go to New York over Nasdaq.
China’s Falling Star
In 2017, the HNA Group went on a global shopping spree and bought a stake in Deutsche Bank. Now it is heading toward bankruptcy.
China’s Trillion-Dollar Sovereign Wealth Fund
China Investment Corporation has taken stakes and put cash in pockets around the globe.
The Year of the Renminbi?
China is confident it will have a global reserve currency soon. But the dollar has proved stubbornly resistant.
The Crypto Kid
How Justin Sun, a Chinese entrepreneur, became one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters. (From the archive.)
Managing Growth
China is liberalizing its financial system and the growth of asset management firms is exploding — with some foreign help.
Goldman’s Big Bet
Nearly 17 years after setting up its joint venture in Beijing, Goldman Sachs is taking full control and — like Wall Street — doubling down...
Who’s Behind the Clouds?
Cloud computing services have leapfrogged into a massive industry. Who are the players in China?