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Business Finance

Exclusive: Credit Suisse axes China bank plan to avoid regulatory conflict under UBS

Credit Suisse has scrapped plans to set up a locally incorporated bank in China to sidestep a potential regulatory conflict arising from its merger with UBS, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Embattled Credit Suisse had been preparing for years to set up a wholly owned local bank in China. A locally incorporated […]

Technology World

Chinese tech entrepreneurs keen to ‘de-China’ as tensions with US soar

 For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder. Before 2019, there were few major impediments to having a Chinese company that did business in the U.S. from China. But amid escalating U.S.-Sino trade tensions, particularly after Washington slapped sanctions on telecom giant Huawei (HWT.UL), some Chinese firms began setting […]

Energy Environment World

Texas battery rush: Oil state’s power woes fuel energy storage boom

 BlackRock, Korea’s SK, Switzerland’s UBS and other companies are chasing an investment boom in battery storage plants in Texas, lured by the prospect of earning double-digit returns from the power grid problems plaguing the state, according to project owners, developers and suppliers. Projects coming online are generating returns of around 20%, compared with single digit […]

Economy World

How declining population growth might portend a future of increasing resource scarcity

In the coming century, the global economy will experience an unprecedented convergence of two trends, as the world’s population reaches its peak while simultaneously approaching near-zero levels of growth – a combination that will invert both the population pyramid and dependency rates. This column examines this transformation within the context of changes to the global […]