Who are the top 10 private banks in Hong Kong, rank by the amount of
clients' money under management.

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Request for Question Clarification by fons-ga on 09 Jul 2003 20:14 PDT

Hi Lase-ga,

How would you define 'private' banks? Would that exclude publicly
listed banks, state-owned banks and all their subsidiaries?

Regards,

Fons

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Clarification of Question by lase-ga on 09 Jul 2003 20:51 PDT

There is a 3-tier system of deposit-taking institutions in Hong Kong,
namely, licensed banks, restricted licence banks, deposit-taking
companies.  They are collectively known as authorised institutions.

I define private banks as those authorised institutions that offer
private, non-retail banking services to high net-worth individuals. 
For example, HSBC Republic is the private banking arm of publicly
listed HSBC.  It is prefectly OK to be a publicly listed banks, or
foreign state-owned banks in Hong Kong, and their related
subsidiaries.