GREAT Trade & Investment News
Hong Kong & Macao
April 2023
For a comprehensive round up of the latest UK-Hong Kong and Macao Trade and Investment news, insights and information kindly refer to the April Newsletter below:
Great HK & Macao TI Newsletter April 2023
China Direct would like to thank the Trade and Investment team at the British Consulate in Hong Kong for kindly sharing this information.
GREAT Trade & Investment News
Hong Kong & Macao
February 2023
For a comprehensive round up of the latest UK-Hong Kong and Macao Trade and Investment news, insights and information kindly refer to the February Newsletter below:
GREAT HK MACAO TI Newsletter Feb 23
China Direct would like to thank the Trade and Investment team at the British Consulate in Hong Kong for kindly sharing this information.
I’m sure most of you are celebrating a much happier end to the year than its beginning was. It has been a tough and challenging year but as we celebrate Hong Kong opening up even more, a very Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice and any other festival that you are commemorating.
As the team here at DIT Hong Kong look forward and begin planning for 2023/2024, we will see the return of VIP visitors and trade missions from the UK, events and activities in Hong Kong with evermore international attendees and also businesses travelling to the UK to sign high-value investment deals. Do get in touch with us if you have any great ideas for the team to be involved in, our contact details are at the end of the newsletter. Also do follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for the latest updates.
It is though bittersweet for yours truly. We will shortly welcome the arrival of our new, permanent Director-General, Chris Woodward, whilst I return to my previous role as Director. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ‘stepping-up’ experience but look forward to Chris taking the reins and leading the team into a very positive future.
To view the December newsletter please click here
Our thanks to Corin and the team at the British Consulate in Hong Kong & Macao for kindly sharing the latest UK-China trade and investment news.
A very warm welcome to our November edition of our Trade & Investment Newsletter. A little later than usual as it has been a particularly bumper month of events and activities for the Department for International Trade (DIT) Hong Kong team. As many of you will know, we saw the fantastic return of the Rugby Sevens along with Hong Kong FinTech Week where DIT hosted a UK Pavilion of FinTech companies followed by a reception at the Consulate.
Looking forward we will be exhibiting at the Learning and Teaching Expo, and MIPIM Asia in the coming weeks. All in all, real evidence of Hong Kong opening up and how the UK is front and centre of this.
For my part, I hosted a webinar as part of DIT’s global International Trade Week with our partners from Invest Hong Kong, Food Made Good HK and Zzzzip. Promoting business opportunities in Hong Kong to UK companies is key to what we do, so it was encouraging to see so many sign up and dial in from the UK to hear all about them.
To view the November newsletter please click here
Our thanks to Corin and the team at the British Consulate in Hong Kong & Macao for kindly sharing the latest UK-China trade and investment news.
Coming out of a period of social unrest and the pandemic, Hong Kong is gearing up to recover lost ground. But doubts loom about the city’s ability to retain and strengthen its long-held role as an international financial centre, especially in the context of the US-China great power rivalry. Financial advisor James Fok, author of the book, Financial Cold War, weighs in on how Hong Kong’s resilient financial markets can exploit the city’s advantages to shore up its position in global finance and what it needs to do to overcome the challenges ahead.
To read the full article please click here.
Our sincere thanks to the author, James Fok and Asia Global Online for kindly sharing these insights.
James Baldwin once said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”. It is fair to say that we are all living through a period of huge change right now. For the UK, we saw the sad passing of one of the greatest monarchs of all time, Queen Elizabeth II. For Hong Kong, the end of quarantine hotels and light at the end of the opening up tunnel. For the world, an economic outlook that changes daily. All of these herald, for better or worse, new times ahead.
As I mark my two-year anniversary here at the British Consulate Hong Kong, I and the DIT Team are certainly looking ahead with a positive attitude to deliver even more trade and investment between the UK and Hong Kong. The team have had a hugely successful first half of the year as it is, with record levels of UK exports and some high-value Hong Kong investment into the UK. So as we look towards the second half of the year, I’d encourage you all to engage ever more with the team and help us to deliver even more success.
Corin Wilson, Acting Director-General, Trade & Investment, Hong Kong & Macao
To view the September newsletter please click here.
Our thanks to Corin and the team at the British Consulate in Hong Kong & Macao for kindly sharing the latest UK-China trade and investment news.
Dear CBI Members and Partners,
Please refer to the following thought leadership insights kindly provided by CBI member PWC and Ms. Chiang Ling Li of Tiang and Partners in Hong Kong.
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To answer this question look no further than this insightful session hosted by Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and his guests US Consul General Hanscom Smith, Jessica Bartlett, global head of financial crime legal at Barclays, Tara Joseph, senior director at Strategy Risks and former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and Charles Mok, former member of the Legislative Council in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and current visiting scholar at Stanford's Global Digital Policy Incubator.
The session was recorded on 06 July and is available via YouTube here.
Our sincere thanks to CSIS for kindly sharing this session.
Dear CBI Members and Partners,
Brian Davidson CMG, will be shortly taking up his new diplomatic post as HM Consul-General to Hong Kong and non-residential Consul-General to Macao.
Mr. Davidson's most recent post was as HMA to Thailand. For more information please visit here.
Thank you.
CHINA DIRECT
CBI member Jersey Finance has just announced the tenth anniversary of its Hong Kong office and to mark the occasion has released its latest research into the rise of family offices across Asia.
Please access the Report here and congratulations to Jersey Finance on ten years serving clients and doing business in Hong Kong.
Kindly refer to the Press Release below for more information.
