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Hong Kong Calms Depositors After Bank East Asia Run (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
Hong Kong hasn't had a bank failure since the Hong Kong Monetary Authority was founded in 1993, though it has a long history of financial crises associated with its lenders. There was a brief run on Standard Chartered Plc and Citigroup Inc.'s local unit after the failure of BCCI Group in 1991, while the failure of a small Hong Kong bank in the 1980s triggered runs on rivals and led to efforts to strengthen regulation. A banking crisis in 1965 prompted a government-backed takeover of Hang Seng Bank Ltd. by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. for HK$51 million ($6.6 million). HSBC Holdings Plc now owns 62 percent of Hang Seng, which has a market value of $36.5 billion.
Hong Kong hasn't had a bank failure since the Hong Kong Monetary Authority was founded in 1993, though it has a long history of financial crises associated with its lenders. There was a brief run on Standard Chartered Plc and Citigroup Inc.'s local unit after the failure of BCCI Group in 1991, while the failure of a small Hong Kong bank in the 1980s triggered runs on rivals and led to efforts to strengthen regulation.
A banking crisis in 1965 prompted a government-backed takeover of Hang Seng Bank Ltd. by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. for HK$51 million ($6.6 million). HSBC Holdings Plc now owns 62 percent of Hang Seng, which has a market value of $36.5 billion.
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