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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 ...
China, for once, is relatively quiet – well in certain respects. Today, we’re nearly mid-way through the two week celebration of Chinese New Year as we move into the year of the rabbit. The streets
Without a doubt when we look back at the year in review for 2010, one of the key industry issues of the year will be that of consumer data protection. With numerous breaches at some of the world’s lar...
Critical to the continued growth of the Chinese economy is the further development of the financial services industry. Once highly protected and staid, the industry has opened up significantly since C...
I found this great analysis concerning this VSMR new release : http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42938028 Another outrageous revenue projection "Based on the current...
With an increasing pressure on revenue and margins, corporate action losses are becoming more difficult to absorb within the business. The risk profile has not changed, but the ability to absorb these...
Too much time drinking the XBRL "cool-aid" can seriously damage your health, as can obsessing about the co-existence of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 message formats, without dealing with today's ...
Recently, the industry has focused on the communication between the two parties involved in OTC contract confirmation. Media attention has concentrated on the debate of market infrastructure and the ...
With contracting assets under management, fund management firms, fund managers and hedge funds alike have been quick to extend performance fee schedules and introduce innovative, complex products to
The internal operational challenge surrounding OTC derivatives remains an area that individual firms have to take responsibility for. In early 2008 we were obsessed about volume, bottlenecks and effic...
Prior to joining the WTO, the knowledge and experience of bank staff in Chinese banks was not an issue. Most domestic banks were very inwardly focused on their core domestic business and staff had the...
A look at the current payment card market in China in the face of the current global economic crisis Currently there are over 1.2 billion payment cards in circulation in China, which equates to jus...