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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.

Email Kaye Wiggins @kayewiggins  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC considers cost-cutting merger of commercial and investment banking units

    Move would be a significant early step by chief executive Georges Elhedery

    Signage outside the HSBC Holdings headquarters building in Hong Kong, China
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC head of wealth and personal banking to leave

    Nuno Matos had been a top contender to lead the lender before the appointment of Georges Elhedery

    The logo of HSBC bank is displayed on a wall outside a branch in Mexico City, featuring a red and white hexagonal symbol next to the letters "HSBC".
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Top private equity firms put brakes on China dealmaking

    Activity dries up amid Beijing’s listings crackdown and planned US investment curbs

    A cyclist rides in the central business district of Beijing
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessHong Kong
    L’Occitane and the trouble with trying to leave Hong Kong

    Prada and Samsonite must be watching with interest the skincare group’s attempt to delist

    Pedestrians selfie outside Prada at Harbour City in Hong Kong
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    PwC
    China Evergrande liquidators launch legal action against PwC

    Filings to Hong Kong court accuse Big Four auditor of ‘negligence’ in its work for collapsed Chinese property group

    An abandoned construction site at the near-deserted Evergrande City Plaza shopping mall, developed by China Evergrande Group, in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    KKR & Co LP
    KKR nears $800mn deal to acquire corporate PR firm from WPP

    Private equity group’s offer values FGS Global at about $1.6bn

    KKR logo
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    Outgoing HSBC chief Quinn has ‘no regrets’ as profits rise

    UK bank’s head confident it can keep growing under successor Georges Elhedery even without boost from rising interest rates

    An HSBC sign on top of a tram stop outside the bank’s headquarters in Hong Kong
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Standard Chartered PLC
    StanChart chief praises ‘serious’ UK Labour government

    Bill Winters cites ‘attractiveness’ of new administration as bank reports rising profits

    Bill Winters speaks at a business conference
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Visual story
    How private equity tangled banks in debt

    Complex layers of leverage could pose a threat to the global economy

    A composite image of the circles and squares used in the private equity network diagram that features in this visual story
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Sovereign wealth funds
    Singapore’s GIC looks to buy western groups’ China units

    Sovereign wealth fund sees ‘opportunity’ as companies exit the mainland amid geopolitical tensions

    GIC logo at its office in Singapore
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Nomura International PLC
    Nomura banker leaves mainland China after exit ban lifted

    Charles Wang Zhonghe was prevented from leaving the country last year

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    PwC
    PwC loses two-thirds of accounting revenues from clients listed in mainland China

    Firm tells partners to ‘stay calm’ as exodus of companies prompts lay-offs and cost cuts

    PwC building in Shanghai
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    News in-depthFinancial services
    Trader in Morgan Stanley case says he is target of ‘smear campaign’

    Former Segantii employee Robert Gagliardi says SEC does not plan action against him

    SEC signage
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    News in-depthHSBC Holdings PLC
    Can HSBC’s new chief finish what Noel Quinn started?

    Georges Elhedery has to cut stubborn costs and deliver profits without the help of rising interest rates

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Georges Elhedery
    Georges Elhedery: who is HSBC’s new chief executive?

    Lebanese-born banker can ‘talk to both east and west’

    Georges Elhedery gestures while seated at his desk during an interview in his office in Dubai in August 2017
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    CATL
    China’s battery giant taps Europe’s elite to expand supply chain

    Tesla supplier CATL holds talks with sovereign wealth funds, family offices and automakers

    Robin Zeng
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Axel Springer SE
    Axel Springer and KKR in talks to break up media empire

    Deal would separate group’s media assets from its digital classifieds operation

    Chief Executive Mathias Döpfner
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd
    Temasek to prioritise US deals and stay cautious on China

    Singapore’s state-owned investor ‘not in a hurry’ to invest in artificial intelligence and warns of ‘hype’ in sector

    Signage for Temasek Holdings
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Global investment banks cut jobs in China retreat

    Wall Street and European groups scaled back in 2023 in ‘challenging’ environment

    A montage of the Chinese flag with the logos of UBS, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Due Diligence
    M&A and the cosy ties between boards and their advisers Premium content

    Plus, a look at how western investors lost billions of dollars in China

    A Spirit AeroSystems factory
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The foreign investors left stranded in Evergrande’s web of Chinese debt

    Overseas bondholders have discovered to their cost that they have little recourse in the Chinese system when boom turns to bust

    A descending graph line passes a photograph of residential buildings
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    News in-depthSegantii Capital Management
    Ex-Segantii trader told Morgan Stanley banker: ‘I know who my daddy is’, court filings claim

    Robert Gagliardi’s ties to the Wall Street bank raised in bonus dispute with Evolution Capital Management

    Montage with the logos of Morgan Stanley and Segantii Capital Management
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    News in-depthIPOs
    Permira’s last-minute decision to kill the Golden Goose IPO

    Buyout group’s pullout followed fractious talks with advisers

    Golden Goose trainers
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    Why UK private equity is ‘encouraged’ by Labour’s signals on promised tax crackdown

    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s comments were received well by those who believe she has opened the door to less harsh options

    The HSBC building in Canary Wharf, London
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UBS Group AG
    UBS closes in on sale of Credit Suisse’s China unit to Beijing state-backed fund

    Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities also bid for securities business

    A Credit Suisse branch and Swiss flag in Bern, Switzerland
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