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Hengrui Pharma (1276): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 22-May-2025
The H-shares are 3.40% of the company. The top 25 placees received 84.75% of these. 41.77% of the H-shares are locked up until 22-Nov-2025, leaving a free float of 130.75m H-shares or 1.98% of the company.
Mirxes (2629): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 22-May-2025
The top 25 holders have 87.95% of the company. The top 25 placees received 87.32% of the IPO shares. 90.11% of the stock is locked up, of which 6.98% until 23-Nov-2025 and the rest until 23-Feb-2026, leaving a free float of 27.33m shares.
Anthony Chiang Sham Lam and his accounting firm suspended for 3 years and fined HK$500k
Accounting & Financial Reporting Council, 22-May-2025
Mr Chiang's firm audited private companies variously owned by him, his wife and his mother.
CATL (3750): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 19-May-2025
After exercise of the over-allotment option, there are 155.915m H-shares (3.42% of the company) of which 77.455m are locked up until 19-Nov-2025, leaving a real free float of 78.460m shares. The top 25 H-share holders have 69.65% of the H-shares.
Concentration warning in Ocean One (8476)
SFC, 14-May-2025
20 holders have 92.22% at 29-Apr-2025.
David Webb says emotional goodbye after 27 years
HK Economic Journal, 13-May-2025
A farewell fireside chat with David Webb at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of HK
YouTube, 12-May-2025
Many thanks to the FCC and to Philip Bowring for hosting.
Auntea Jenny (2589): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 7-May-2025
The top 25 holders have 98.56% of the H-shares and 99.19% of the total issued shares.
The Webb-site Repository
Webb-site.com, 1-May-2025
As promised, you can now download the Webb-site datasets and take our work forward.
PECS Register monthly update
HK Government, 30-Apr-2025
This month's jobs for ex-senior HK civil servants
SFC fines Interactive Brokers HK$4.2 million for regulatory breachesStatement of Disciplinary Action
SFC, 28-Apr-2025
From 2017-2020, due to a programming error, they lent out HK$586bn of client securities without valid standing authorities. They self-reported to SFC in 2020.
SFC obtains arrest warrant for suspected market manipulatorGazette Notices
SFC, 25-Apr-2025
Mr Liu Shaolin allegedly rigged the price of China Hongbao (then Pak Wing, 8316) in 2018.
Further sanction of Stanford Ngan Kam Biu, ex-INED of Wisdom Wealth Resources (0007)
SEHK, 24-Apr-2025
For failing to take the director training that was ordered in Jul-2024.
Sanction of ex-Chairman of Silver Base (ex-0886) and his nephew, an ex-ED
SEHK, 22-Apr-2025
For pre-payments, including to a connected person, which looks like a cash-extraction exercise before liquidation.
Censure of Leading Holdings (6999) and its Chairman-CEO Liu YuhuiThe false announcement
SEHK, 8-Apr-2025
For failing to disclose that he had pledged shares to a broker and a forced sale occurred on 19-May-2022, crashing the stock 84%.
Trump's tariff own-goal
Webb-site.com, 3-Apr-2025
He apparently has no idea how much this will hurt US consumers and how little it will affect the trade deficit. Asian manufacturers and their investors can, to a large extent, sleep easy tonight.
Webb departs HK Takeovers and Mergers Panel after 24 years of service
SFC, 31-Mar-2025
Of which the last 12 were as a Deputy Chairman.

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Trump's tariff own-goal
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Knock it off, Judiciary: HK courts don't use gavels
The HK Judiciary persists in promoting an object never used in courtrooms as a symbol of law and juridical work. Why not promote something else not found in courts, like a rocket? (19-Oct-2024)
IKEA removes smart-home products from HK, citing National Security Law
Not entirely consistent with the Government's goal to make Hong Kong a Smart City by investing hundreds of HK$ billions into "Innovation and Technology". (12-Sep-2024)
Putting Police in the Policy Address
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Meaningless board games at HKEX, and how the UK FCA has just made an awful mistake
We review the proposals for a 6-seat and 9-year limit on so-called INEDs, along with other changes that do nothing to address HK's corporate governance deficit. Meanwhile, a slow-motion disaster is underway in the UK as it scraps fundamental investor rights. (28-Jul-2024)
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The HK budget supercomputer hallucination
According to Paul Chan's budget speech, at undisclosed taxpayer expense, HK is supposed to produce a machine 3 times more powerful than the world's current fastest, within 2 years, and without using the best chips which were banned by the USA from export to HK following imposition of the National Security Law on HK. (2-Mar-2024)
HK's Rates reforms: damage to property values, needless complexity and misdirected handouts
It's not too late for the Government to return to fiscal sanity with a simple Rates system rather than practice the populist politics of petty envy. (30-Jan-2024)
Breaking: HK Government withholds Task Force report, citing threat to financial markets stability
We asked for the report. They refused. Now we're really wondering what's in it. (29-Jan-2024)
Hong Kong Island, major vehicle exporter?
Transport Department data suggest that HK Island exported a net 1.25m vehicles in 2022, more than are on the roads in the SAR, and the Island is on track to beat that in 2023. Take a look at the data and tell us why! (9-Dec-2023)

Other news

Hengrui Pharma (1276): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 22-May-2025
The H-shares are 3.40% of the company. The top 25 placees received 84.75% of these. 41.77% of the H-shares are locked up until 22-Nov-2025, leaving a free float of 130.75m H-shares or 1.98% of the company.
Mirxes (2629): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 22-May-2025
The top 25 holders have 87.95% of the company. The top 25 placees received 87.32% of the IPO shares. 90.11% of the stock is locked up, of which 6.98% until 23-Nov-2025 and the rest until 23-Feb-2026, leaving a free float of 27.33m shares.
Anthony Chiang Sham Lam and his accounting firm suspended for 3 years and fined HK$500k
Accounting & Financial Reporting Council, 22-May-2025
Mr Chiang's firm audited private companies variously owned by him, his wife and his mother.
CATL (3750): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 19-May-2025
After exercise of the over-allotment option, there are 155.915m H-shares (3.42% of the company) of which 77.455m are locked up until 19-Nov-2025, leaving a real free float of 78.460m shares. The top 25 H-share holders have 69.65% of the H-shares.
Concentration warning in Ocean One (8476)
SFC, 14-May-2025
20 holders have 92.22% at 29-Apr-2025.
David Webb says emotional goodbye after 27 years
HK Economic Journal, 13-May-2025
A farewell fireside chat with David Webb at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of HK
YouTube, 12-May-2025
Many thanks to the FCC and to Philip Bowring for hosting.
Auntea Jenny (2589): allotment results and concentration warning
Company announcement, 7-May-2025
The top 25 holders have 98.56% of the H-shares and 99.19% of the total issued shares.
PECS Register monthly update
HK Government, 30-Apr-2025
This month's jobs for ex-senior HK civil servants
SFC fines Interactive Brokers HK$4.2 million for regulatory breachesStatement of Disciplinary Action
SFC, 28-Apr-2025
From 2017-2020, due to a programming error, they lent out HK$586bn of client securities without valid standing authorities. They self-reported to SFC in 2020.
SFC obtains arrest warrant for suspected market manipulatorGazette Notices
SFC, 25-Apr-2025
Mr Liu Shaolin allegedly rigged the price of China Hongbao (then Pak Wing, 8316) in 2018.
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