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Covering all aspects of financial services in Asia from banking in China to algo trading in Japan.
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...
Beyond satisfying WTO requirements, one of the key rationales for allowing foreign multinational banks to buy into Chinese financial institutions was to leverage the investors’ experience to develop a...
With both the Olympics and Para-Olympics now over and the vestiges of Olympic advertising slowly being removed from billboards around China, it is getting back to business as usual in China, or as usu...
After news earlier this month that National Australia Bank had recruited Oracle to manage the roll out of the first phase of a A$1 billion overhaul of its core banking operations, it's not surprising ...
According to ChinaDaily, as of the end of last year, lenders in China had issued 1.5 billion bank cards, including debit cards, credit cards and quasi-credit cards. Of the huge sum, active cards, whi...
Japanese business culture is big on individuals stepping up to take responsibility for mistakes that have resulted in their organisation losing face. TSE executives taking a salary cut over the latest...
The government of the new Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou has, over the past few weeks, taken a number of key steps towards financial services liberalization between Taiwan and the mainland that are p...
Non-performing loans (NPLs) have been the monkey on the back of Chinese banks for years. Previous to 2001, NPL rates weren’t as big of a concern for the banks as they were all fully state-owned and co...