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Biden keeps Powell as U.S. Fed chair, names Brainard vice chair - BNN Bloomberg

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Powell risks rerun of 1960s inflation from confusing jobs market - BNN Bloomberg

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Mystery of Who Invented Bitcoin Hangs Over Scientist’s Trial - BNN Bloomberg

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Merkel Dismisses Russian Role in Europe’s Energy Price Crisis - BNN Bloomberg

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'A very important market': Why Infosys chose Canada for new innovation hub - BNN Bloomberg

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China’s Regulatory Crackdowns Are Already Hurting the Economy - BNN Bloomberg

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'It takes time': Carney preaches patience on energy transition - BNN Bloomberg

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G-7 eyes ambitious shift to electric cars and away from oil - BNN Bloomberg

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Pandemic linked to 15 per cent drop in fossil fuel use in 2020: energy regulator - BNN Bloomberg

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The world economy is suddenly running low on everything - BNN Bloomberg

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Apple raises U.S. investments over five years to US$430B - BNN Bloomberg

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Bank of Canada pares bond purchases, sees rate hikes earlier - BNN Bloomberg

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Tech group says China poised to top U.S. without new migrants - BNN Bloomberg

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Yellen to urge global minimum company tax to stop venue-hopping - BNN Bloomberg

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Biden infrastructure plan would boost electric cars, clean power - BNN Bloomberg

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Intel CEO charts comeback on foundry model TSMC mastered - BNN Bloomberg

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Fiery start to U.S.-China talks shows acrimony is here to stay - BNN Bloomberg

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More than three-quarters of CEOs confident about global economy in 2021: PwC survey - BNN Bloomberg

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Here's how Ant can rise again after that IPO shock

WED, NOV 04, 2020 - 3:49 PM

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Ant Group will survive the 11th-hour suspension of its blockbuster US$35 billion listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong if the company can learn from its technology peers. 

PHOTO: REUTERS

[TAIPEI] Ant Group will survive the 11th-hour suspension of its blockbuster US$35 billion listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong if the company can learn from its technology peers. If there's one thing that founder Jack Ma and Chinese regulators probably agree upon, it's that finance and technology make for a powerful combination. The mix is where they ran into trouble. Halting the initial public offerings (IPOs) due to a "change in regulatory environment" is the government's way of asserting that Ant is more fin than tech. Mr Ma and team won't get away with being digital cowboys riding roughshod over the financial system.

Alibaba Group, which owns a third of Ant, took an immediate hit on Tuesday, falling by a record 9.7 per cent for its New York-listed shares. It was down as much as 9.3 per cent on Wednesday in Hong Kong.

Making too much money may not be the real sin - as Deng Xiaoping famously stated, to get rich is glorious. But having too much power over the nation's financial levers intrudes on government territory.

China's state-owned banks are a policy tool. Not only does Ant control a growing payments platform, Alipay, but its loans and wealth management businesses have climbed to dominate their rivals.

China's financial regulator plans to discourage lenders from using Ant's platforms, which act as a conduit for loans from banks to consumers, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter whom it didn't name.

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On the surface, that looks really bad. Yet ensuring banks comply with new rules is what we'd expect from a regulator and puts pressure on Ant's executives to quickly bring its own business model into line.

As my colleague Shuli Ren pointed out, comments Mr Ma made last month at the Bund Summit in Shanghai seem to have led to the suspension. He compared China's banks to pawn shops demanding sufficient capital to back loans. Ant's model is famously different, relying instead on reams of customer data to manage risk.

Mr Ma described the financial system as following rules designed by a club of old people, and said the country needs "policy experts, but not experts in red tape".

The path forward seems clear. Rather than shut Ant down, or scuttle the IPOs altogether, Beijing is likely to force important changes to its business model. Tencent Holdings and Baidu know how this works: reflect, repent and renovate. They got past regulatory hiccups by coming out more patriotic than ever.

To understand what Ant could look like after the dust has settled, let's consider Beijing's longer-term goals.

One is to roll out a central bank cryptocurrency. As my colleague Andy Mukherjee has outlined, the rise of fintech in areas such as money-market funds and wealth management has led to risk accumulating in shadow banking.

One of the government's strategies behind a digital token is to level the playing field back towards traditional lenders, who have been trailing technology in other ways. Expect Ant to embrace this virtual yuan-backed currency.

Another goal is to expand the surveillance state, where data informs every aspect of daily life. The more questionable uses involve tracking individuals, cracking down on dissent, and enforcing standards of behaviour.

Yet keeping a digital footprint of the economy can lead to efficiency in allocating capital, lending money, and even managing supply chains. Fintech proponents make this argument when they say that the new system needn't follow old rules.

Ant and Beijing are likely to meet in the middle. Regulators outlined new draft rules for the sector this week that include Basel-style capital requirements. As a result, Ant would need to provide at least 30 per cent of the funding for loans it makes. That figure is currently closer to 2 per cent, with the capital requirement equal to around US$14 billion, according to estimates by Jefferies analysts Chen Shujin and Alfred He. While possibly a slight drag on profit, this shouldn't trouble Ant, given the IPOs were set to raise 2.5 times that number.

We may also see Ant provide regulators with greater access to its data, as a way to prove that its model can better manage risk while teaching them how things are done. In return, Beijing will have greater access to information it can use to build a broader model of the economy and its citizens.

A final change is likely to be Mr Ma himself. Companies often talk about key-man risk in terms of how the business may suffer if the linchpin executive departs. For Ant, this problem is reversed: Mr Ma hanging around could be the liability.

China's second-richest man had already stepped away from Alibaba after taking too much of the spotlight away from political leaders. He no longer has any official position at the e-commerce behemoth. Yet he holds voting control and a significant stake in Ant.

As with Alibaba, Mr Ma is likely to put his vast holdings into a philanthropic trust, set up charities and think tanks, and retire from public life.

Ant could then rise from its IPO ashes like the patriotic fintech phoenix that Beijing ultimately wants.

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Huawei plans to build chip plant without US technology: FT

SUN, NOV 01, 2020 - 2:23 PM

Huawei Technologies plans to build a chip plant in Shanghai without using American technology, as China's biggest tech company by sales seeks a new strategy to overcome increasingly tight US sanctions, the Financial Times reported. 

PHOTO: REUTERS

[SHANGHAI] Huawei Technologies plans to build a chip plant in Shanghai without using American technology, as China's biggest tech company by sales seeks a new strategy to overcome increasingly tight US sanctions, the Financial Times reported.

The fabrication facility is expected to start with the manufacture of low-end 45nm chips, the paper said on Sunday, citing people familiar with the project. Huawei aims to make 28nm chips for "Internet of things" devices by the end of 2021, and produce 20nm chips for 5G telecom equipment by late 2022, the report said.

Huawei has no experience in fabricating chips and the plant would be run by Shanghai IC R&D Center, a research company backed by the city's government, according to the report.

China has laid out a path toward greater economic self-sufficiency in its new five-year plans, and vowed to build its own core technology, saying it can't rely on buying it from elsewhere.

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China plans to ban cryptocurrency mining in renewed clampdown

TUE, APR 09, 2019 - 3:57 PM

China signaled its intent to ban cryptocurrency mining, dealing a fresh blow to an industry buffeted by tumbling virtual currency prices, stiff competition and waning investor interest. 

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[HONG KONG] China signaled its intent to ban cryptocurrency mining, dealing a fresh blow to an industry buffeted by tumbling virtual currency prices, stiff competition and waning investor interest.

The National Development Reform Commission, the country's powerful economic planner, this week listed crypto-mining among a plethora of industries it intends to eliminate because they "seriously wasted resources" or polluted the environment. The agency is seeking public feedback on the guidelines and indicated that the crypto-mining ban could take effect as soon as they're formally issued. The consultation period ends on May 7.

While China was once home to about 70 per cent of Bitcoin mining and 90 per cent of trades, authorities have waged a nearly two-year campaign to shrink the crypto industry amid concerns over speculative bubbles, fraud and wasteful energy consumption.

After banning initial coin offerings and calling on local exchanges to halt virtual currency trading in 2017, Chinese officials outlined proposals in 2018 to discourage crypto mining - the computing process that makes transactions with virtual currencies possible but consumes vast amounts of power. Beijing was said to have asked local agencies at the time to try and push miners out of business.

The industry, which was initially drawn to China's inexpensive electricity, local chipmaking factories and cheap labour, has begun shifting overseas. Market leader Bitmain Technologies Ltd - which in March allowed its application for a Hong Kong initial public offering to lapse - has established mining operations in the US and Canada. BTC.Top, the third-biggest mining pool, said last year it was opening a facility in Canada.

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Nvidia Corp are among listed chipmakers that supply crypto miners in China and around the world.

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