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Companies are facing significant operational, financial, and strategic challenges due to the COVID-19 outbreak, although the spread of the virus has slowed down and the situation appears to be stabilising in different regions around the world. As countries restart their economies, businesses need to evaluate the risk of infection and effectively manage their liquidity to survive this difficult period, writes Ines Liu Such times of economic turmoil, however, are when… …

Kent Kedl, Senior Partner, and Ben Li, Associate Director, at Control Risks explain that conflicts of interest are easy to come by but much harder to deal with  A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an employee derives personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity within the company. Some recent, real-life examples include: A foreign company bought a Mainland China-based company and retained the former owners… …

Kieran Porter of Elicius explains what corporate intelligence actually is, who needs it and why, and the pitfalls to look out for “People should have seen this coming” was the widespread reaction to the recent dramatic downfall of Luckin Coffee. China’s US-listed Starbucks challenger dropped 90 percent of its RMB 85 billion valuation in April and was raided by regulators as part of an investigation into its accounting practices. But… …

Author Paul French talks to Tom Pattinson about the guns, the girls and the gigs in the debauched city that was Shanghai in the ‘30s as his new crime book City of Devils is released  Dancers, actors and singers travelled to Shanghai in the 1920s and ‘30s to perform at some of the world’s most stunning dance halls and clubs. The international settlement became home to American merchants, British bullion …