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Asian Private Banking: Where The Money Is

ASIAN SOPHISTICATES By Michael Shari Do Asian private banks have the complexity to outshine their Swiss counterparts and attract the vast private wealth reserves growing in the East? After a formal apology by the Swiss Bankers Association for wrong conduct ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China/Ukraine: Mutual Attractions

MILESTONES By Luca Ventura With a fifth of the worlds population but only 9% of its land, China in recent...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China: A Man, A Plan, A Canal

NEWSMAKERS By Erik Heinrich Wang Jing is a man who likes to think bighis is the kind of grandiose thinking...

Banking

Cover Story: Chinas Third Revolution

WHAT SECTORS WILL GAIN? By Arthur Clennam With its new leadership, China is changing. And with transformation comes opportunity. Reform...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Foreign Exchange 2013: Renminbi Trading

RENMINBI RUCKUS By Gordon Platt London and Paris are vying to become Europe’s renminbi trading hub. Paris is challenging London, the leading center of foreign exchange trading globally, to be the hub of renminbi trading in Europe. ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

India: Ex-Tea Vendor To Bag PM Post?

NEWSMAKERS By KA Badarinath Once a tea vendor, Narendra Modi—now a main candidate for prime minister of India—has come a long way in the past 30 years. The 63-year-old Modi has entered the fray for the May 2014 election race ...

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India: New Central Bank Governor Zigs

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Aaron Chaze Amid what is being regarded as Indias worst financial crisis in more than a decadewith the currency having plunged 15.9% against the US dollar in the third quarter, GDP growth at 4.4% in the ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Japan: Big Hike In Sales Tax Coming

MILESTONES By Tom Clouse Japan will increase its sales tax next year for the first time in more than 15...

Banking

Stars Of China: Behold The Next Generation

ANNUAL SURVEY: STARS OF CHINA By Arthur Clennam The companies and banks selected as this years Stars of China are...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

India: Crackdown Spooks Investors

MILESTONES By KA Badarinath Since the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had not reversed the trend of easing capital controls. But on August 14, the rhetoric was different as the RBI curbed the outflow ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Vietnam: Pro-Business Message Pays Off

After posting its lowest growth rate in 13 years in 2012, Vietnam’s economy is showing signs of revival. Industrial production expanded by 5.3% in the first eight months of this year, with exports and imports up by 14.7% and 14.9% ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

China Gets Its Very Own FSOC

A newand possibly powerfulfinancial industry regulator has gotten the green light from officials in China. Although the agency has yet...