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Russia-Backed Hackers Behind Most Nation-State Cyber Attacks: Microsoft

Oct 2 2020 // Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on Microsoft customers, according to new data from company.Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its...

Insurer Ping An Taps Rising Demand for Chinese Assets with Offshore Management Arm

Sep 28 2020 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s largest insurer by market value, is tapping growing global demand for Chinese assets to expand its offshore asset management business as competition with foreign entrants...

New York Again Ranks as Top Global Financial Hub But London Gains in Volatile Index

Sep 25 2020 // New York again heads the rankings of the world’s leading global financial centres.The Global Financial Centres Index 28, launched by London think tank Z/Yen Group in partnership with the China Development Institute...

Chinese Companies Lag Far Behind in Climate Risk Disclosure

Sep 24 2020 // A report on the current state of climate risk disclosures among the largest companies in China and the United States found that Chinese companies lag significantly behind their global peers in the S&P 500 in climate...

U.S. Prosecutors Charge 7 in Alleged Multi-Target Chinese Hacking Scheme

Sep 17 2020 // The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it has charged five Chinese residents and two Malaysian businessmen in a wide-ranging hacking effort that encompassed targets from video games to pro-democracy...

China’s Communist Party Seeks Greater Loyalty From Private Sector

Sep 16 2020 // China’s ruling Communist Party is demanding a show of greater loyalty from the sprawling private sector as the world’s second-largest economy grapples with growing external risks, from open U.S. hostility to...

China Tightens Rules Governing Financial Holding Firms

Sep 14 2020 // China issued new rules on Sunday to regulate financial holding companies, in its latest move to prevent systematic risks to the nation’s vast financial sector.The new rules were set to stem loopholes in supervision...

China Counters U.S. ‘Clean Network’ With Own Global Data Security Initiative

Sep 10 2020 // China has launched an initiative to address global data security issues, a countermove to the U.S. “clean network” program that is aimed at discouraging other countries from using Chinese technology.Foreign...

China Offers Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines to Aviation Frontline Workers

Sep 4 2020 // China has offered experimental coronavirus vaccines to aviation industry workers, according to a regulatory notice seen by Reuters, in a push to inoculate high-risk groups to prevent a possible resurgence as economies...

Search for Crew from Capsized Cattle Ship Continues; Records Reveal Ship Defects

Sep 4 2020 // A crewman from a cattle ship that capsized enroute from New Zealand to China has died after being pulled unconscious from water by the Japanese coastguard on Friday, while it emerged the vessel had a history of mechanical...

More Than 40 Crew Members Missing After Ship with 6,000 Cattle Capsizes Off Japan

Sep 3 2020 // More than 40 crew members were missing after a ship carrying cattle from New Zealand to China capsized in stormy weather in the East China Sea, the Japanese coastguard said on Thursday.A lone crew member from the Gulf...

Ant’s Mega IPO Sets Up Jack Ma to Escalate War With Nemesis Tencent

Sep 3 2020 // Ant Group’s late-summer IPO filing drove home why the business — backed by 711 million active users that spent $17 trillion through its platform — is headed for potentially the world’s largest stock...

Missouri’s COVID-19 Lawsuit Against China Stalled in Federal Court

Sep 2 2020 // More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court.Neither the...

China Reinsurance Group’s Premiums Rise 20% in First Half

Sep 1 2020 // In the first half of 2020, China Re Group Corp. enjoyed rapid growth in premiums and steady profitability despite the pandemic.In the first half of 2020, gross written premiums increased 20.5% year-on-year to RMB102.1...

China’s Ping An Reports Steady Results for First Half

Aug 28 2020 // Ping An Insurance Company of China announced its 2020 interim results for the six month period ended June 30, 2020.The integrated financial services company said it maintained steady business performance in the period by...

Post-Covid Cold War World Will Be Tough for China’s Ant: Opionion

Aug 28 2020 // Ensconced in a lucrative niche at home, Jack Ma’s Ant Group nevertheless has to look outward. And expanding overseas has never looked so difficult for China’s biggest payments app, even with the war chest from...

Coronavirus Erodes Countries’ Economic Resilience; Global Insurance Gaps Widen

Aug 26 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to reduce global macroeconomic resilience by about 20% in 2020 from 2019 levels as stimulus packages deplete countries’ fiscal and monetary buffers around the world.At the same time,...

Taiwan Claims Alibaba-Linked Site Is Cyber Security Risk

Aug 25 2020 // Taiwan declared an e-commerce platform linked to China’s Alibaba Group a potential security risk and has told its operator to register as a company from the rival mainland or dispose of its ownership stake.The order...

Alibaba’s Ant Group Files for Dual Listing; Could Be World’s Largest IPO Ever

Aug 25 2020 // Ant Group, Alibaba’s fintech arm and China’s dominant mobile payments firm, filed for a dual listing in Hong Kong and on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style STAR Market on Tuesday and could raise as much as $30...

Anbang, Andy Bang, $1 Trillion in Claims. Ritz-Carlton Mystery Gets Its Day in Court.

Aug 24 2020 // When a 26-year-old Uber driver walked into a California deeds office two years ago, it was the real-estate equivalent of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a tsunami half a world away.Hired by an elderly Chinese...