Nomura plans to add bankers in Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore

There isn't enough money in the world to make me want to move to any of those three places. Been to Hong Kong and Singapore and could not imagine living like that. Oh wait, I can imagine because I have relatives that live like that in Shanghai. It's not for me. High rise living in a city that dense would be like a prison sentence.

Boredom pay, Hazard Pay and Singapore.

You'd need lots of cash to move to Singabore. Counting your cash gives you something to do.

My wife is from Hongkong and a staunch fighter for the democratic mouvement. We just had under the new “ national security law all our property seized. Just like that. If that is where and how Nomura wants to make money they should think again. At anytime all assets can be seized by the HK government. Wear the wrong colour t- shirt, ( black), sing the wrong song and off you go to jail. My wife was detained for 6 weeks to join a peaceful demonstration. People are getting life sentences just because they express free speech. Maybe we can not survive now but regrets we do not have

@robert maes

I fully sympathise with you.

robert:

Did you and your wife sympathize with the thugs recruited to set the city on fire? That might explain some things.

Who exactly is getting life sentences? Who? And please don't say Jimmy Lai - he went on USA TV and suggested that USA should drop a big nuclear bomb on China.

I know plenty of people from HK and they were all sick and horrified at the violence directed at anyone who wanted peace, the elderly who wanted to clean up the roads after the violence, passers-by, one of whom was set on fire and that video is probably still on Youtube, anyone who spoke Mandarin (and that included Taiwanese).

Funny how USA and UK have even stricter security laws and are now arresting journalists, and yet they kick up a fuss when HK has a new security law.

If that is where and how Nomura wants to make money they should think again

I think you'll find that is exactly why wealth managers are having presence there, to help move assets elsewhere into safer havens...for a fee of course.

There's talks of crackdown on money laundering in Dubai now, and if they don't cooperate, they'll be cutoff from Swift.

Singapore has cracked down on Chinese money laundering, and it's big news.

HK well, you know already....