This Tiny Firm Just Surpassed Goldman Sachs With a 14,000% Gain

Bloomberg 2022-08-04

The world, apparently, has a new financial giant.AMTD Digital, a Hong Kong-based company that listed in New York less than three weeks ago, has surged so much that the combined market value of its ...

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HLPA
2022-08-04
HLPA
Who knows..might rise again when big playees decide to play it up again!
blessed_1
2022-08-04
blessed_1
[Surprised]
MacXzero
2022-08-04
MacXzero
Run!
Bspn
2022-08-04
Bspn
Ok
TeslaLegend
2022-08-04
TeslaLegend
Nice
MSTAN
2022-08-04
MSTAN
👌👌

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It said in a statement on Tuesday that it’s monitoring the market for any trading abnormalities and doesn’t know of any “material circumstances, events, nor other matters” that could be affecting the stock price.Well-Known BackersChoi joined AMTD Group in 2016 as chairman and chief executive officer after spending five years at UBS. Created in 2003 with backing from Li Ka-shing’s company CK Hutchison Holdings, it’s the parent of AMTD Digital and AMTD Idea Group, which is listed both in Singapore and the US.AMTD Idea also has well-known backers. Century City International Holdings., owned by members of Hong Kong’s real estate tycoon Lo family, holds a 5.8 per cent stake in the firm. A unit of Morgan Stanley invested in a funding round in 2019.Choi, a Hong Kong native and Canadian citizen who studied accounting at the University of Waterloo, is the sole owner of a vehicle that controls 32.5 per cent of AMTD Group. His father is also involved after a company that belongs to him acquired a majority stake in it in 2015. AMTD Group owns 50.6 per cent of AMTD Idea, which in turn owns 88.7 per cent of AMTD Digital.Choi has been a fixture at annual financial technology events in Singapore in recent years. At an event co-organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, AMTD Group was among the biggest sponsors for three consecutive years through 2019, when Choi spoke on panels with executives including Standard Chartered Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters.Earlier this year, though, Hong Kong regulators banned Choi from the securities industry for two years for failing to disclose conflicts of interest in transactions he worked on while at UBS. He’s appealing the decision. China Minsheng Investment Group, an AMTD Group investor that installed Choi as CEO, turned against him and at one point placed banners in Hong Kong’s central district denouncing him.Separately, Hindenburg Research has blasted AMTD Group. In an April 2021 report on Ebang International Holdings, a China-based crypto company, the short seller said its track record as an underwriter was “abysmal,” with 87 per cent of its US IPOs resulting in losses.Choi admitted in a statement last year that he’s faced challenges.“There are those who envy and [are] jealous, and those who are cold-eyed and mockers, and malicious, there are slanderers,” he said. “However, entrepreneurs must insist that development is the last word.”AMTD’s surge has those from Hong Kong to New York speculating about what, if anything, is behind the moves in the stock. 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