South Korea's financial regulator on Wednesday approved the banking operations of China Everbright Bank, a unit of the state-owned Everbright Group. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said in a statement that it gave a nod to ...
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With Chinese currency the yuan, also known as the renminbi, enjoying rising acceptance, banks and enterprises in the Gulf Arab region are seeking ways to catalyze the growing demand for conducting trade with the currency. "By the end of ...
China will relax restrictions on banks' yuan trading from next year, in a small but significant move toward relaxing its capital controls. The changes will replace daily caps on banks' foreign exchange positions with weekly limits, and ...
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State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp has submitted a formal request to the National Board of Revenue seeking a waiver from local taxes, value added taxes and other duties imposed on refined oil product imports, in order to borrow less from ...
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When a Chinese engineering firm sets off to build a road or a dam in a distant country, a Chinese bank is usually not far behind them. Bank branches bearing Chinese characters can be found on the streets of Lima and Warsaw, as well as Paris ...
Mizuho Corporate Bank (China), Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese commercial lender Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., has gained regulatory approval to expand registered capital by CNY 3 billion. People in the know disclosed in an ...
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Hongkong Land was said to be organizing a domestic loan of CNY 2.6 billion to CNY 2.8 billion or USD 425 million to USD 457 million to build a Wangfujing international brand center. The company has contacted with several Chinese and ...
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me foreign banks will continue fueling expansion in the Chinese mainland in the second half of this year despite that they experienced a profit fall there in the first half of the year. Foreign banks released financial results for the ...
MasterCard didn't make a peep earlier this month when word leaked that Beijing had halted the company's transactions in renminbi. Leaked documents didn't show when the payments were terminated, but the central bank effectively stopped the ...
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Foreign banks continue selling stake in Chinese lenders due to uncertainties of the Chinese economy. Sources said recently that HSBC would sell an eight percent stake in Bank of Shanghai, a city-level commercial lender in the Chinese ...
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PTI reported that Essar Shipping is planning to convert around INR 800 crore of total INR 5,500 crore debt into dollar loans to bring down the interest burden. Mr AR Ramakrishnan MD of Essar Shipping said that "We are planning to convert ...
Tags: interest burden, financing cost, domestic and foreign banks
Speech by the Governor Shandong Province has important historical status in the five thousand years' civilization of China. The Confucian culture that originated in Shandong has dramatic influence both in China and overseas. Sunzi ...
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Taipei,Sept.24,2012(CENS)--Fubon Financial Holding may win out in the scramble among Taiwanese financial holdings for Taiwanese-invested First Sino Bank in mainland China.Fubon Financial Holding may be able to acquire over 50%stake in First ...