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"Royal Bank of Scotland Group is planning to reduce the office space it rents in Hong Kong\u2019s Central business district by half, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.Bloomberg News reports that the bank leases about 60,000 square feet in the AIA Central&amp;nbsp;building, the people said, declining to be named because the information isn&amp;rsquo;t public. It plans to keep half of that for Coutts &amp;amp; Co., its private banking unit, and most of the other employees will move to Lincoln House in the eastern district of Quarry Bay, where RBS already leases space, by the end of the year, they said. Office rents in Central, where banks such as HSBC and Goldman Sachs have their regional headquarters, are falling as foreign financial firms continue to downsize or relocate to cut costs. Tenants in the city on three-year leases expiring this year may be able to negotiate on average rents that are 20 percent lower than current leases, according to Cushman &amp;amp; Wakefield Inc. To access the complete Bloomberg News article hit the link below: RBS Said to Give Up Half of Office Space in Hong Kong&amp;rsquo;s Central Deutsche Bank Sues Former China Head Lee for $6.3 Million &amp;nbsp;And the Best Place to Work in the global financial markets 2015 is..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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