Viewpoint
07.10.21

Why China Is Going After Its Tech Giants

Charles Mok

Just days after its lucrative listing on the New York Stock Exchange, China ride-hailing giant Didi Global was hit with another round of sanctions by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). On July 4, the country’s Internet regulator...

Hong Kong IPOs Become Losing Bets for Investors

Hong Kong is one of the world’s top venues for initial public offerings, thanks to listings by Chinese companies over the years, but most of the IPOs have been a losing bet for investors, with the bulk of them lagging behind the market in recent...

Conversation
09.12.14

Is a Trade War with China Looming?

Arthur R. Kroeber & Donald Clarke

As Alibaba gets ready to sell shares on Wall Street, U.S. investors will be focused on Chinese companies getting a fair shake here in America even as some big U.S. brand names (Microsoft, Chrysler, et al) are being shaken down by China's newly...

Alibaba Begins Wooing Wall Street

On Monday, Ma, the company’s executive chairman and co-founder, told a crowd of more than 800 potential investors gathered for the first big marketing pitch for Alibaba’s initial public offering, that he was back to ask for a little more money....

The Jack Ma Way

At Alibaba, the founder Is squarely in charge ahead of the e-commerce giant's U.S. initial public offering.

Conversation
07.24.14

Alibaba: How Big a Deal Is It?

David Wolf & Duncan Clark

When Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public some time after Labor Day it is expected be one the largest initial public offerings in history. This week,...

Caixin Media
05.20.13

Errors of Aggression Catch up with Underwriter

Ping An Securities Co. has been slapped with a fine by the securities regulator and will lose its stock underwriting license for three months because of its sloppy work in underwriting the initial public offering of a company that turned out to...

Caixin Media
03.10.13

Finding IPO Alley

China’s IPO action has been locked in ice since October by China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) officials intent on boosting investor confidence and improving scrutiny of stock market hopefuls.

Yet the heat is on for aspiring...

Sinica Podcast
05.20.11

Inscrutable China

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

It may be because we’ve yet to finish Henry Kissinger’s latest book on the subject, but we’ll admit to having found life in China a bit more inscrutable than normal these past few weeks, and all evidence suggests we’re not alone. Seen through the...

Sinica Podcast
05.07.11

Crazed Madmen, Foreign and Domestic

Jeremy Goldkorn, Gady Epstein & more
from Sinica Podcast

Despite losing almost a dollar for every dollar of revenue last year, Chinese Facebook clone Renren (人人网) made a spectacular launch on Wall Street last week, raising U.S.$743.4 million in a crazed initial public offering. So it’s no surprise that...

Sinica Podcast
04.22.11

China’s Second Internet Bubble?

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

Interest in Chinese Internet companies has reached a fever pitch. Fueled by the fact that roughly fifty percent of the companies that went public on NASDAQ last year were Chinese in origin, at least seventeen more high-profile companies are...