Virtual assets, smart contracts and central bank digital currencies: transforming investment funds
By Marc Piano
Blockchain, smart contracts and virtual assets (together, DLT) can automate and digitise investment fund operations. Fund operators may want to take...
Economic substance reporting obligations in the British Virgin Islands
Like most other major international financial centres (including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man and the United Arab Emirates), the...
How can personal data be misused?
A lot has been said in recent years about both how personal data is being collected and how it’s used by third parties: particularly...
USCCA vs CCW Safe: Which is the best CCW insurance?
USCCA and CCW Safe have already been ranked by many gun owners as some of the best firearms CCW insurance choices but how do they compare...
Why should blockchain be regulated?
Some people will read this title, disagree and move on. The fact that you have made the effort to read on a little further...
Time for securitisation to be a friend and not a foe of the NPL...
By Iain Balkwill
As the world continues to get to grips with the fallout from COVID-19 and we start to witness the gradual removal of...
The Future of HSBC in China
By He Jun
HSBC, founded on March 3, 1865, is facing one of the major risks in peacetime since its establishment. It has become an...
Finance Bill 2019-21: July 2020 Amendments that will Affect Businesses
The Finance Bill 2019-21 completed its tenth Bill Committee stage on June 18, 2020, and entered into the report stage on July 1, 2020....
The Structural Changes in a Post-Pandemic Global Finance
By Chan Kung and Wei Hongxu
In many ways, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the world. Under the presence of increased global trade...
The Financial Effects of COVID 19
The world is fighting an invisible enemy who is threatening the economic activities of various nations. The source of strength to many people lies...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
