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Zennon Kapron Founder at Kapronasia
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 just under 1 card for every man, woman and child. While this may seem like a large number, it pales in comparison to where the market could go. If cards ...
07 April 2009
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 more mature set of regulations and financial industry as a whole. With the slowdown going truly global, we are starting to see multi-national banks ...
06 February 2009
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 usual as it could be. For awhile, the feeling was that the Chinese economy would come out of the Olympics, weather the credit crunch and continue on the...
15 October 2008
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
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 that I-flex, majority owned by Oracle, will be providing the new core banking system. However, The Economic Times in India reported some more detail...
14 August 2008 /retail /wholesale
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, which were used at least once every month, were only about 80 million, less than 10 percent of the total. These figures come from China UnionPay, the nat...
08 August 2008 /payments /retail
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 glitch is obviously a lot less severe than the falling-on-one's-sword routine favoured by samurai of old, but what is more interesting is the action ...
05 August 2008
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 pointing towards a more integrated financial sector. The two players have always been closely economically intertwined, but there have been many barri...
04 August 2008
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 competition was weak. China entering the WTO changed that. As the industry started to open up, competition increased and banks considered public listin...
08 June 2008
Taking a step away from financial services for a minute, I thought it fitting to give a view from China of what’s happening regarding China’s recent earthquake. In previous disasters like the SEA tsunami a few years ago or the recent typhoon in Myanmar, I've often found myself detached from the reality of the situation by geographical distance. Al...
21 May 2008
2008 is turning out to be a another big year for the Shanghai stock market, not because of the bubble-like conditions or growth like what we saw in 2007, but for the changes in market regulations. Since the peak of 6,124 in October 2007, the market has dropped over 50%; briefly dipping under 3,000 in intraday trading. With the Olympics on the horiz...
02 May 2008
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