Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, will leave in May next year. On December 13th, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced that Ms. Zhang Liling, Assistant Managing Director (Economic Research), has resigned for personal reasons and will leave in May 2025. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will arrange an open recruitment for the post of Assistant President (Economic Research), and will make a separate announcement after the recruitment process is completed.China Securities Association: Let the margin financing and securities lending business truly become a powerful tool to serve the people's wealth growth and promote the healthy development of the capital market. On December 6, 2024, China Securities Association held a plenary meeting of the professional committee on margin financing and securities lending business in Chongqing. The meeting emphasized that industry organizations should give full play to the functional role of margin financing and securities lending business, strictly implement relevant regulatory requirements, optimize business processes, improve institutional systems, provide quality services to customers, always bear in mind the people-oriented principle, and put the protection of investors' legitimate rights and interests at the core, so that margin financing and securities lending business can truly become a powerful tool to serve the wealth growth of the people and promote the healthy development of the capital market. The meeting summarized the key work of the Committee in 2024 and discussed the work plan for the next stage. In the next step, the Committee will further play a professional and "handle affairs, discuss and communicate" platform role to jointly promote the high-quality development of margin trading and securities lending business.The plan for Indonesian civil servants to move to the new capital was postponed until April next year. On December 13th, local time, Diana Kusu Mastu, Deputy Minister of Public Works of Indonesia, said that the Indonesian government planned to move civil servants to the new capital Nusantara in April 2025. The construction of necessary infrastructure, including residential buildings, is under way, and the current construction progress has exceeded 60%. (CCTV News)
TikTok for Business: Build a full-link training system and realize the integration of assessment and certification. Recently, TikTok for Business held the 2024 channel agent conference. At the meeting, TikTok for Business said that at present, TikTok for Business's service link has expanded from simple advertising to live broadcast with goods, short drama contracting, data co-construction and other aspects, and gradually formed a service model of combining e-commerce live broadcast with delivery, short drama distribution, contracting and delivery integration. In addition, TikTok for Business has also built a full-link training system to realize the integration of assessment and certification, and ensure the provision of high-quality services for enterprises going to sea.Chinese researchers have developed a new type of implantable cranial nerve probe. The reporter learned from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences that Zhang Qiang, a researcher at the institute, and his collaborators have developed a new type of implantable hydrogel neural probe to realize long-term stable monitoring of cranial nerve signals, precise regulation of neural circuits, and preliminary exploration in the application of diagnosis and treatment of severe brain diseases. Related research results were recently published in the international academic journal Advanced Materials. (Xinhua News Agency)Bank of Communications: Wang Wenjin resigned as business director. Due to job transfer, Wang Wenjin has submitted a written report to the board of directors of the company and resigned as business director (corporate and institutional business). His resignation will take effect on December 13, 2024.
The CSRC approved the registration application of Jiangnan New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. for initial public offering of shares.Guangdian Express won the bid for ICBC's all-in-one local and foreign currency banknote allocation and processing project. Recently, Guangdian Express successfully won the bid for ICBC's all-in-one local and foreign currency banknote allocation and processing project, achieving a major breakthrough at the head office level for the first time in the field of smart treasury. The intelligent solution for the number of local and foreign currency banknotes won this bid strongly supports the business process optimization of ICBC's large local currency and foreign currency, helps to create a new benchmark for smart vaults in the industry, and pushes the intelligent operation of domestic vaults to a new level.The retail price of refined oil may end up stranded. According to calculation, as of the seventh working day on December 13th, the average price of reference crude oil varieties was 70.58 USD/barrel, with a change rate of -0.87%, and the corresponding domestic retail price of gasoline and diesel should be lowered by 40 yuan/ton. At 24: 00 on December 18th, it is the last price adjustment window of the retail price in 2024, so the retail price is likely to end stranded. By December 13th, 2024, the domestic retail price of gasoline and diesel had experienced "9 up, 9 down and 6 stranded". After the fluctuation offset, gasoline and diesel (standard products) were reduced by 115 yuan/ton and 125 yuan/ton respectively. (Jin Lianchuang)