ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 In 2019, Tabby’s proposition was remarkably simple. A customer wanted to buy something online but didn’t necessarily want to pay the entire amount immediately. Tabby placed itself at checkout and allowed that purchase to be divided into instalments. No bank branch. No traditional credit-card application. No complicated financial…
ABE NEWS | September 12, 2026 For several years, the story surrounding Hong Kong’s financial centre seemed to be moving in only one direction. Bankers were leaving. Fund managers were relocating. International companies were reconsidering their presence. Families with substantial wealth were looking toward Singapore and Dubai. Political upheaval after the 2019 protests, Beijing’s imposition…
ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 China is moving to strengthen some of the most important institutions in its financial system through a coordinated $54 billion capital-raising programme, giving major state-owned banks and insurers additional financial firepower as Beijing tries to support an economy facing weaker investment, subdued borrowing demand and pressure on financial-sector profitability….
ABE NEWS | September 4, 2026 The artificial-intelligence race has produced enormous chip orders, gigantic data centres and technology companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on computing infrastructure. Now it is producing something else: enormous amounts of debt. ByteDance, the Chinese technology giant behind TikTok and Douyin, has secured a staggering $29.6 billion…
ABE NEWS | August 30, 2026 Canada is positioning itself at the centre of an ambitious attempt to transform how Western countries finance defence, as Prime Minister Mark Carney throws Ottawa’s weight behind a proposed international bank seeking to mobilize roughly €100 billion — about US$116 billion — for defence, security and military-industrial investment….
