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    Kaye Wiggins

    Asia financial correspondent

    Kaye Wiggins is the FT's Asia financial correspondent, based in Hong Kong. She covers banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance and M&A across the region.

    Kaye was previously private capital correspondent at the FT in London. She joined the FT in 2019 from Bloomberg News.

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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      HSBC Holdings PLC
      HSBC executive to leave after criticising UK’s stance on China

      Sherard Cowper-Coles said Britain had been ‘weak’ in response to US pressure

      3 hours ago
      Sherard Cowper-Coles
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Evergrande Real Estate Group
      ‘Crimes’ probe into Evergrande founder adds to pressure over $300bn debt woes

      Company embodies excesses of China’s property boom and its unravelling

      Hui Ka Yan
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Vista Equity Partners LLC
      Singapore’s GIC ditched Vista stake after founder’s tax scandal

      Sovereign wealth fund’s move underlines reputational risks faced by buyout firms

      Robert Smith
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Kyndryl Inc
      IBM’s former IT services group plans to separate its China business

      Kyndryl’s move reflects geopolitical tensions and follows trend of western companies seeking to insulate their Chinese units

      Data centre
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Inside BusinessChinese business & finance
      A hidden US-China decoupling

      Private equity firms are becoming the arbiters of a competing set of demands from investors whose interests are political

      Bund bull statue and pedestrians in front of Shanghai’s financial district
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Senior Nomura banker barred from leaving mainland China

      Exit ban on Charles Wang Zhonghe will send chill through foreign business circles

      Hong Kong-based banker Charles Wang Zhonghe in Beijing in 2010
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      GGV Capital
      Venture firm GGV Capital to split off China business after US pressure

      Move follows similar decision by rival Sequoia Capital and Biden order to limit American investment in Chinese tech

      Jenny Lee
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Indian business & finance
      Indian growth attracts global investment banks despite low fees

      South Asian powerhouse has become a target for expansion as business dries up in China

      The Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      Prudential PLC
      Africa the next ‘growth engine’ for Prudential, says new chief

      FTSE 100 insurer maps out expansion plans after walking away from US and European markets

    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Prudential PLC
      Prudential chief Wadhwani plans to reduce reliance on Hong Kong and China

      FTSE 100 insurer plots expansion in India and Africa after pivot to Asia

      The Prudential logo on a building in Hong Kong
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      Why Europe can’t quit Russian energy

      Goldman Sachs bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds

    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      US banks
      Goldman bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds

      Deals tapped private equity ‘partnership fund’ that the bank set up with China’s CIC

      Montage of Goldman Sachs logo and UK and US flags
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Inside BusinessUS banks
      China is becoming more trouble than it’s worth for US investment banks

      Selling shares in Chinese companies offshore used to be a money-spinner — but that’s no longer the case

      A high-rise apartment complex in Zhenjiang City
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      CVC Capital Partners Ltd
      Private equity group CVC revives listing plans

      European buyout firm targets multibillion-euro IPO in Amsterdam and potentially before year-end

      FT montage including a CVC logo, and photos of PG Tips tea, rugby players and a Formula One driver
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depthUS-China relations
      US investors face uncertain future in China after tech ban

      Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown

      A montage of Joe Biden, the China flag and the logos of Sequoia, Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Private equity
      CVC explores sale of troubled Kenyan tea plantation

      Kericho site in Kenya had a history of violence and sexual abuse allegations before Unilever sold it to private equity last year

      Farm workers emerge from a plantation in Kenya’s Kericho highlands
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Country Garden Holdings Co Ltd
      China’s Country Garden misses bond payments as turmoil grips property sector

      Real estate crisis continues to drag on world’s second-largest economy

      A picture of the Country Garden logo
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      HSBC Holdings PLC
      HSBC executive apologises for criticising UK over China policy

      Sherard Cowper-Coles said at a private event the UK had given in to the US too easily

      Sherard Cowper-Coles
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      HSBC Holdings PLC
      HSBC to launch $2bn share buyback after profit boost from interest rates

      Results strengthen bank’s hand against Ping An’s activist campaign to split business

      Noel Quinn
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Standard Chartered PLC
      StanChart boosts share buybacks after beating profit expectations

      Global bank is latest to benefit from rapid interest rate increases

      Standard Chartered bank logo
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      NatWest Group
      NatWest chief Alison Rose steps down after Nigel Farage row

      UK bank head’s resignation comes after she admits to being source of inaccurate BBC report about former Ukip leader

      Alison Rose
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      China sounds out foreign buyout groups over boosting inward investment

      Rare symposium in Beijing part of concerted effort to re-engage with foreign investors and businesses

      The headquarters of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in Beijing
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Trafigura
      The chef and the sandwich shop owner at the heart of Trafigura’s fraud case

      Commodity trader’s scant knowledge of some of its counterparties raises questions over due diligence

    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      Sequoia Capital
      Sequoia China’s push into Singapore sets up fight against Indian arm

      Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV

      Neil Shen
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      HSBC Holdings PLC
      HSBC accused of siding with China in tussle over pension funds

      UK and US politicians express ‘deep concern’ over bank curbing withdrawals from clients trying to emigrate

      Pedestrians walk past the logo for HSBC outside a local branch in Hong Kong
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