The answer to our pop quiz is the low-profile ICEA, subsidiary of China's ICBC. In this interview its CEO, Meocre Li talks about why this has been an incredibly successful year for the Hong Kong-based Chinese investment bank
What is the strategic objective behind ICEA Is it to grow along with China
Basically yes. We are a Chinese house in the sense that our major shareholder is the biggest commercial bank in China. We are 75%-owned by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ICBC. And the reason why ICBC established ICEA was to allow it to gain access to the investment banking business, so as to be able to offer...