Exclusive interview with Micro Connect founder and chair, Charles Li

Charles Li shares Micro Connect’s aspirations to enable one million small businesses to achieve individual annual profits of RMB1 million ($150,000).

Exclusive interview with Micro Connect founder and chair, Charles Li

March 07, 2023

Charles Li is renowned as a pioneer within Asia’s financial markets. Having started his working life as a teenager in the oilfields of north-eastern China, it was in the 1990s that he emerged as an up-and-coming lawyer on the Wall Street scene, before further rising to serve in leadership roles at international banks, Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan. 

But it is perhaps his service from 2010 as chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing HKEX that solidified his status within the region’s capital markets. He orchestrated a number of strategic initiatives that would transform Hong Kong’s position as a truly international finance hub, including the bourse’s acquisition of...

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