China opens up financial institutions to foreigners

Foreign banks and financial services firms will be able to take majority ... and a four-fold increase in the value of stocks that can be traded on existing sharemarket links between Shanghai and Hong Kong each day from May this year. ( read original story ...)

China Aiming for a Stock-Trading Link With London This Year

The program with London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSE) Plc would be the third system to give foreigners access to the mainland equity market, the world’s second biggest by value. A link between Shanghai and Hong Kong started in November 2014, and a ... ( read original story ...)

Soft Start Seen For China Stock Market

The China stock market has climbed higher in three straight sessions, gathering almost 80 points or 2.6 percent along the way. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just beneath the 3,210-point plateau although the wheels may come off on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

China Construction Bank opens a branch managed by robots

China Construction Bank (CCB), the nation’s second largest lender by assets, opened one in Shanghai this week, run by pure technology including facial recognition (FR), artificial intelligent (AI) and virtual reality (VR). Hyped as a first for the ... ( read original story ...)

China will link its stock market to London this year

Yi Gang, governor of the People's Bank of China, confirmed the timetable for the London-Shanghai Stock Connect in a speech on Wednesday. The project is modeled on mechanisms that already link Hong Kong's market to exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen. ( read original story ...)