All is quiet on New Year’s Day. So says rock band U2. For some, however, the beginning of 2015 has not been calm. On Thursday, Hong Kong-listed Chinese property developer Kaisa revealed that it was in default on a loan from HSBC. Repayment of the $52m debt, due on December 31, was triggered by the early December resignation of company chairman (and big shareholder) Kwok Shing Ying.
元旦那天一切安靜。至少搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì)U2是這么說(shuō)的。不過(guò),對(duì)某些人來(lái)說(shuō),2015年的開(kāi)端并不平靜。周四,在香港上市的中國(guó)房地產(chǎn)開(kāi)發(fā)商佳兆業(yè)集團(tuán)(Kaisa)披露,其從匯豐(HSBC)獲得的一筆貸款發(fā)生違約。在12月31日償還5200萬(wàn)美元債務(wù)的責(zé)任,是由公司董事長(zhǎng)(和大股東)郭英成(Kwok Ying Shing)在12月初辭職所引發(fā)的。