A pedestrian stands in front of an electronic ticker board and a screen displaying stock figures outside the Exchange Square complex, which houses the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in Hong Kong. (Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- In June 2017, as a Signal 8 storm warning was issued in Hong Kong, Jones Chan Siu-chung was trying to push his way into a shareholders’ meeting of the company he founded. Burly men with bulging biceps barred his path.