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On Asset Tokenization with Mr. Frankl, LGP

  Associated with blockchain technology, tokenization has become a hot topic around the world now. There is seemingly a tendency that everything is being considered tokenized, esp.  assets with economic value such as real estate properties, luxury items, stocks, gold or fine art. What is asset tokenization? What’s the difference between tokens and cryptocurrency? What is the driver for the token market?  Does tokenization bring up potential legal issues? Is there a connection between asset tokenization and IoT? When governments try to adjust to new technologies, introducing corresponding regulatory framework, do law firms see new business chances or more of…


Building up Hong Kong’s Unique Image in Zurich and Davos 

This year, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Mrs Carrie Lam spoke at the Emerging Markets Outlook session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting  in Davos, Switzerland, together with other high-ranking speakers, among them Mr Berat Albayrak, Minister of Treasury and Finance of Turkey and Mr Guido Sandleris, Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina. Mrs Lam said that developed economies and emerging market economies alike should forge closer economic co-operation, with a view to unlocking new growth opportunities. On her five-day visit to Switzerland, Mrs Lam also met government officials and the business community. Accompanied by Hong Kong’s Financial…


New Archaeological Findings Tracing 9000-Year Old Domestic Pigs in China

New Archaeological Findings Tracing 9000-Year Old Domestic Pigs in China   The beginning of February, 2019 saw exciting archaeological discoveries and studies in China that the countrywas one of the earliest places in the world to domesticate pigs about 9,000 years ago. “Our research confirms that pig bones excavated from the Jiahu (贾湖)relic site in Wuyang (舞阳)County, central China’s Henan Province, date back 9,000 years and belong to domestic pigs,” said Yuan Jing, a researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Foreign scholars have found remains of domestic pigs from around the same period…