Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. And we'll tell you what matters for investors in Europe, giving you insight before trading begins. Donald Trump said he made “fantastic trade deals” with Xi Jinping as the leaders wrapped up their summit in Be...
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. And we'll tell you what matters for investors in Europe, giving you insight before trading begins. Donald Trump said he made “fantastic trade deals” with Xi Jinping as the leaders wrapped up their summit in Beijing, though few concrete agreements emerged. Trump told Fox News that Xi offered to help on Iran, which Beijing has not confirmed. China has urged the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. And in the UK, another potential challenge to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership from one of the nation's most popular Labour Party politicians, Andy Burnham, was enough to send the pound tumbling. Today's guest: Hetal Mehta, St James’s Place, Chief Economist. (Source: Bloomberg)
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The local media should contribute to “telling the ‘good stories of Hong Kong’” amid global turbulence as the city formulates its first five-year blueprint to align with national development, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has said. Speaking at an annual award ceremony organised by the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong on Friday, Lee said the local media was not only a witness and a recorder of even...
The local media should contribute to “telling the ‘good stories of Hong Kong’” amid global turbulence as the city formulates its first five-year blueprint to align with national development, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has said. Speaking at an annual award ceremony organised by the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong on Friday, Lee said the local media was not only a witness and a recorder of events, but must also facilitate and contribute to the city’s and China’s progress. “In the face of the...
GoTyme Bank Ltd. has invited all its employees to share ownership in the digital lender controlled by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe as it seeks to scale up operations. Africa’s first profitable standalone digital bank this week extended the offer to its 2,000-strong global employee base across all levels of the company and started sessions to educate staff about the new incentive and i...
GoTyme Bank Ltd. has invited all its employees to share ownership in the digital lender controlled by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe as it seeks to scale up operations. Africa’s first profitable standalone digital bank this week extended the offer to its 2,000-strong global employee base across all levels of the company and started sessions to educate staff about the new incentive and its potential benefits. “We want our staff to behave like owners,” Chief Executive Officer Cheslyn Jacobs said on the sidelines of an event in Johannesburg Thursday night. “This business still is in a hyper-growth phase so we think this is going to make meaningful differences to our people’s lives.” Majority owned by Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital Investments Ltd. , GoTyme Bank has more than 21 million customers in South Africa and the Philippines, where it runs a joint venture with the Gokongwei Group . It’s also backed by China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. and has operations in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore. The lender was valued $1.5 billion in 2024 after a fundraising round that included a $150 million investment from Latin America’s most valuable financial company, Nu Holdings Ltd. Jacobs declined to share an updated valuation, saying instead that the business would post a record profit for the year through June and is signing up about 450,000 new clients per month across South Africa and the Philippines. While GoTyme is still working toward listing to further fuel its growth, its internal narrative around such a move has changed, Jacobs said. “We’ve publicly said we want to do this before the next decade, but we do talk about it slightly differently now,” he said. “What we’ve realized is you struggle to predict these things, so now we talk about being listing-ready from a timeline perspective in three to four years from now. But we’re only going to do it if it makes sense.” The lender would consider a listing anywhere globally closer to when it reaches 50 m...
A man who previously represented residents of fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po has been arrested, along with his wife, on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, the South China Morning Post has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said Jason Kong Cheung-fat, a director of Ace Interior Design & Engineering Company Ltd, and his wife, who is also a director of the company,...
A man who previously represented residents of fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po has been arrested, along with his wife, on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, the South China Morning Post has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said Jason Kong Cheung-fat, a director of Ace Interior Design & Engineering Company Ltd, and his wife, who is also a director of the company, were arrested on Thursday. The couple are suspected of borrowing hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong...