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Colin Day - SunGard - London | 02/04/2012 | 1995 views

So having spent three of the last four weeks in Shanghai, it was time for me to move on over the weekend. Following a 4 ½ hour flight, my flight touched down at Singapore’s Changi Airport Terminal 2, and at 7pm as the plane coasted to a halt the captain proudly announced the outside temperature was 86 degrees. This was nothing to the... Tags: Post-trade & ops, Retail banking

Zennon Kapron - Kapronasia - Shanghai | 30/01/2012 | 2181 views | 1 comment

Prepaid card recycling in China

One of the most interesting parts of doing market research in China is learning about the innovative ways of doing business. A few weekends ago the fracas over the China launch of the iPhone 4S at the Apple store in Beijing got me thinking. If you haven’t followed the story, basically, the store was meant to open in the morning and people had...

Zennon Kapron - Kapronasia - Shanghai | 01/09/2011 | 2878 views

The Changing Face of Chinese Retail Banking

Anyone who has lived long enough has their own China banking story. Mine was when I first arrived many years ago. My landlord banked with Bank of China (BOC) and I banked with the Industrial Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). At that time (2004), personal bank to bank transfers weren’t possible without a tremendous amount of paperwork, so once ...

Zennon Kapron - Kapronasia - Shanghai | 16/08/2011 | 2732 views | 2 comments

What an MOU actually means in China's FSI

Frequently companies issue press releases talking about a new agreement or MOU with a Chinese financial institution or market player. As Chinese companies globalize and more foreign companies setup offices in China, announcements like these are becoming more common, it is worth taking a minute to reflect on what MOUs or agreements actually mean bot...

Zennon Kapron - Kapronasia - Shanghai | 02/06/2011 | 2840 views

It's what foreign banks are doing outside China that matters

Recently there seems to have been an increased focus on the presence of foreign banks in China and their domestic China businesses. There was an article in the WSJ last week that mentioned the number 86% which represents the increase in foreign banks' lending in China in 2010. A webinar from Celent talks about how JVs/partnerships are still the way...