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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Alipay Seeks Growth From Traveling Chinese

Alipay is partnering with banks around the world to provide its Chinese customers with seamless service at their preferred tourist destinations, with Italy’s UniCredit Bank following France’s BNP Paribas and Barclays in the UK.

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Best Banks in Asia-Pacific 2017

Global Finance Magazine’s 2017 rankings of the best banks in Asia-Pacific.

Award Winners

ICBC Tackles Its Challenges

The sprawling Chinese bank faces a slowing domestic economy and new opportunities in international markets.

News

The Global Impact Of Easternization

Gideon Rachman, author of “Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond,” talks with Global Finance about the growing power of Eastern nations.

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India Creates New Banks To Fund Infrastructure

The government of India has set up a new type of bank intended to support funding for large projects.

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China Will Win Trump’s Trade Game

President Trump’s more aggressive trade stance may backfire, and end up strengthening China rather than the US.

Data

Japan Rethinks Trade In Face Of TPP Collapse

US withdrawal from the TPP was a shock to its top ally in the Pacific, and may push Japan into the trading arms of China.

News

With May Elections, Korea Can Move Past Scandal

South Korea elects a new president in May, and after spending months ousting the sitting president, leftists may win the chance to lead the country.

News

Modi Empowered By State Wins

Wins by Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s ruling party in the month of March indicates strong support for his challenging reform plans

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China Retailers Bet Big On Online Banking Service

Chinese Web giant Baidu has obtained regulatory approval to establish, in collaboration with China Citic Bank, a direct-banking firm named Baixin Bank that will operate online rather than through brick-and-mortar outlets.

Country Report

China To Build Silk Road For Project Finance

China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative is the most ambitious overarching infrastructure project to be proposed in the modern era, and it requires ambitious financing.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

McDonald’s China Deal Favors Franchise Model

McDonald’s agreed to sell 80% control of its restaurants in China and Hong Kong for 20 years to state-owned conglomerate Citic and the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.