Lead Stories China to Shake Up Global Market With Yuan-Based Oil Futures Contract; Chinese traders, analysts expect start by early 2018 By Georgi Kantchev - WSJ China is preparing to launch its own yuan-based oil futures contract, a move set to shake up the 96 million...

Lead Stories Is Asia driving the Bitcoin craze? Karishma Vaswani - BBC But this, says Dexter Ng, is the workshop of the future. A self-professed cryptocurrency entrepreneur, he's the chief technology officer of SG Mining - a business making and selling rigs. These are...

Lead Stories South Korean cryptocurrency exchange to file for bankruptcy after hacking Reuters Staff A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange said on Tuesday it is shutting down and is filing for bankruptcy after it was hacked for the second time this year, highlighting...

Lead Stories Hong Kong Listings Rule Changes Set to Transform Market, Li Says By Benjamin Robertson and Rishaad Salamat - Bloomberg HKEX on Friday proposed allowing dual-class share companies; Profitability requirement for biotech companies also dropped Hong Kong...

Lead Stories The $145 Trillion Future of Investing Is Heading to Asia;; Surging wealth throughout the developing world will reshape asset management. By Nico Grant - Bloomberg Chinese assets under management to rise at break-neck pace; This story is part of a series...

Lead Stories Deutsche Bank Says ‘Mrs. Watanabe’ Behind the Surge in Bitcoin By Julie Verhage - Bloomberg Japanese retail investors seen shifting from currency trading; Men actually hold the majority of Japanese trading accounts That term is often used to describe the...

Lead Stories Why bitcoin could trigger the next global financial crash South China Morning Post Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are speculative derivatives with nothing to back them up, and that poses a danger to financial system https://goo.gl/vx1YUT UN’s North Korea...

Lead Stories The Force Behind Bitcoin’s Meteoric Rise: Millions of Asian Investors; Retail investors, mostly in Asia, are pushing the price of bitcoin to new heights By Steven Russolillo in Hong Kong and Eun-Young Jeong in Seoul - WSJ Behind the stunning rise of...

Lead Stories China’s ethical bonds take it to top spot in green paper league; Country is joint-largest source of issuance, along with France Kate Allen and James Kynge in London - FT Chinese banks are using ethically labelled bonds to refinance existing loans, helping...

Lead Stories From taxis to temples, Alipay's fast-expanding cashless world; Ant Financial's empire raises concerns of customer data use by Beijing YUSHO CHO and JOYCE HO, Nikkei HANGZHOU/HONG KONG -- To fully understand the changing concept of consumer credit in...

Lead Stories Coffee Glut Hinges on Whether Top Growers Will Hold Back Sales By Isis Almeida , Mai Ngoc Chau , and Fabiana Batista - Bloomberg Current prices aren’t attractive for growers, ICO’s Sette says; Brazil, Vietnam will need to rebuild stockpiles: RCMA’s Gruber...

Lead Stories ASX selects distributed ledger technology to replace CHESS Reuters Staff Australia’s main bourse ASX Ltd on Thursday said it would replace its existing technology used to record shareholdings and manage the clearing and settlement of equity transactions...

Lead Stories Trump’s Tax Plan Triggers Ire From China to the EU By Mark Deen , Birgit Jennen , and Viktoria Dendrinou - Bloomberg European Union finance ministers to review U.S. legislation Concern that tax cut could violate global trade, tax rules As legislators in...