I'm currently in Dubai and the banks are getting weird.
Citi and Standard Chartered literally evacuated their offices this week. Told staff go home, work remote.
HSBC closed their Qatar branches. Hedge funds are in "contingency mode." That's a polite way of saying they're
Are we back ? #hongkong @HongKong
这次是真的回来了.
3月首周,中东资本单周净流入香港超3000亿港元,中东家族办公室、高净值客户来港设家办、配置股债保险的咨询暴增。香港财政司司长陈茂波公开确认避险资金正流向香港,不少美国资金流入香港避险,政府已做好承接预案。花旗等国际大行明确指出香港成为中东资本首选避险地,近期港股IPO中,中东主权基金基石认购占比从18%飙升至39.2%。—星岛日报消息
LATEST: 🇭🇰 Two of Hong Kong's first stablecoin licenses are expected to go to major banks HSBC and Standard Chartered, and should arrive soon, according to Bloomberg.
NEW: Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller said he expects global payment systems to run largely on stablecoins within 15 years, calling them more efficient, faster and cheaper than current infrastructure.
“We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know they are lying.
We know that they know that we know they are lying.
But they are still lying.”
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn