The unidentified employee was surrounded by reporters and protesters shouting "Go back to the mainland!" To which the banker, speaking in Mandarin, responded "We are all chinese!" A protester then punched him n the face, knocking his eyeglasses off. There is little more in the way of context according to the report.

"Some of you will be aware of an incident today that occurred outside of our Chater House office involving an employee," reads a JPMorgan memo seen by Bloomberg. "We want to reiterate that we have put in place additional security for all of our buildings and continue to closely monitor the situation in Hong Kong."