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Tailored Technologies: How Transsion came to dominate the African phone market

ArticleJanuary 3, 2025

Transsion has taken a multi-brand approach to multiple price-points in each market that it operates in The sky at the opening ceremony for this year’s African Cup of Nations was filled with the first-ever choreographed drone show on the African continent. At points throughout the performance, the luminous drones shifted into formation, spelling out TECNO, […]

Influence and Infrastructure: How Chinese spending is shaping global development

ArticleOctober 31, 2024

China’s overseas spending has, in recent years, refocused away from Western economies towards the low- and middle-income countries of the Global South. This has, from the China side, been largely driven by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) over the last decade, but there are also some clear correlations between the political structures of many […]

AI Lending: Effective use of AI tools is improving lending decisions

ArticleOctober 31, 2024

Effective adoption of AI tools in the lending industry is already showing clear benefits, but human oversight is still necessary Business adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing rapidly, with a McKinsey report already putting the adoption rate at around 80%, with variations on degree of use and business sector. The importance of AI is […]

Growing Closer: China’s rural-urban divide and its effects

ArticleOctober 24, 2024

A large portion of rural Chinese incomes come from remittances sent home by migrant workers As China’s rural-urban migration has increased over the past decades, so has its rural-urban divide. Remittances sent back to those remaining at home have grown into a large portion of rural incomes, with almost $51 billion sent home in 2022 […]

Agility at Scale: How businesses can improve their response to change

ArticleAugust 20, 2024

In this interview Chris James, CEO of Scaled Agile, Inc., discusses the development of business agility, the need for both leadership buy-in and bottom-up training for effective implementation of processes, and the cultural challenges of adopting agility solutions in different regions around the world.

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Finance Professor Mei Jianping Releases the Spring 2024 MM Chinese Art Indices

NewsJuly 8, 2024

Funding Ambition

ArticleApril 3, 2024

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, author of Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions, discusses the makeup of China’s sovereign funds and how their purpose and investment strategies are shifting

Sustained Growth

ArticleApril 3, 2024

Siyao Jiang, China Managing Partner at consultancy firm ERM, elaborates on the growing business case for taking a sustainable approach in the global market

Painting a picture

ArticleApril 2, 2024

The Chinese art market has grown dramatically over the past two decades, and tracking that growth may provide insights into the strength of the economy as a whole

Empowering Financial Institutions: Rich Data Corporation’s Charles Guan’s Pursuit of AI and Education at CKGSB

StoryFebruary 29, 2024

Quality Time

ArticleDecember 20, 2023

As we start to live longer, many Chinese people are increasingly focusing on improving their quality of life

Local issues, local solutions?

ArticleDecember 20, 2023

China’s local governments are in need of new revenue streams, but finding long-term sustainable solutions is proving difficult

What’s next for China’s economy?

Professor AnalysisDecember 12, 2023

The meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo decided upon a number of priorities and set out guidelines for economic policy directions for the second half of 2023. Of particular interest to the market, were the directives related to boosting consumption, supporting private enterprise and stabilizing real estate, employment, local debt, capital markets and exchange […]