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An information services provider called Capvision Partners (Shanghai) Corp. Ltd. has just filed for a Hong Kong IPO, offering profit margins that would make some of its global peers quite envious.
There’s just one problem. The company operates in a highly sensitive area by connecting industry experts with institutional investors trying to figure out which way the markets are blowing. Such investors are willing to pay big bucks for this kind of access to people who often work inside major companies and thus have an insider view of what’s happening in both their companies and also their broader industries. Some might call that insider trading.