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Banking

Chinese E-Commerce Companies Biggest Threat To Banks

Trends | Fintech China’s Big Three Internet and e-commerce companies—Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent—are so big they are referred to collectively as BAT, and all three have received banking licenses and scaled up their e-commerce and finance platforms.

Country Report

Erdoğan’s Next Move

Elections over, Turkey firms up plans to become a financial hub.

Banking

Israel Keeps Its Economic Motor Humming

Country Report | Israel Chinese investors flock to the nation’s cutting-edge tech sector.

Award Winners

New Digital Frontiers: Alex Chen, Executive Vice President, CTBC Bank

Q+A with Alex Chen, Executive Vice President of Ctbc Bank

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Pro-Mainland Party Gets Boost From China

Chinese president Xi Jinping met with Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou on November 7 in Singapore, the first time leaders from the two governments have come together since 1949.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Renminbi Takes A Hit As Trade Volumes Fall

Capital Markets | Renminbi The renminbi dropped a position in October, going from fourth to fifth, in terms of its use as a currency for international payments, according to the latest SWIFT Renminbi Tracker report.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Squeezed Between Dragon And Eagle

Asia’s emerging economies fight to diversify from China and the US.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Will Historic Elections Pull Myanmar Into Modernity?

History was made in Myanmar, the country formerly called Burma, on November 8, when the National League for Democracy (NLD), headed by Noble Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won a near-total sweep in the first democratic election in 25 years.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Finance Minister Key To City-States’s Revamped Cabinet

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation’s next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People’s Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Asia Pacific

Chinese E-Commerce Companies Biggest Threat To Banks

Erdoğan’s Next Move

Israel Keeps Its Economic Motor Humming

New Digital Frontiers: Alex Chen, Executive Vice President, CTBC Bank

Pro-Mainland Party Gets Boost From China

Renminbi Takes A Hit As Trade Volumes Fall

Squeezed Between Dragon And Eagle

Will Historic Elections Pull Myanmar Into Modernity?

Finance Minister Key To City-States’s Revamped Cabinet

India And Taiwan, Cut Rates Tracking The Fed

Modi’s India Passes US & China In FDI

Renminbi Gaining Currency