日期：2007-11-26 经济结构调整 The Third Plenary Session of the CPC 11th Central Committee, held in 1978, made the decision to shift the policy stress to socialist modernization, and implement the strategic decision on reform and opening to the outside world. The refo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 At the end of last year, Microsoft invested U.S.$ 80 million in a China Research Institute specializing in essential research. It also declared recently that U.S.$ 50 million investment will be made in the Microsoft Asian Technology Center in Shangh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Multinational Companies Accelerating the Sales Strategy Rearrangement There is a new trend in the investment by multinational enterprises: to shift their businesses and technical transformation to establishing production bases, the core strategy is f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 After a study of Chinas current situation, Mr. Li Wen, president of the Warner Group, firmly believes that taking a comprehensive survey of the great changes in China in the past twenty years and the development trend of the world economy, two positi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Multinational Companies Adjust Strategies to China China is Now a Key Area in the Global Strategies of Multinational Companies Once upon a time, multinational companies were very sober-minded about investing in China. Of the large German and Japanese... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Monetary policy China's impressive money-supply growth rates continued in 1999. Deflation-fighting efforts included the issuance of more than *200 billion ($24.16 billion) in new currency last year; the institution in November of a tax on individual... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 OVERALL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN 1999 GDP China's GDP grew slightly more than 7 percent in 1999, thanks only to the government's ongoing stimulus program. With other Asian countries recovering, China's probable WTO accession this year, and a new drive... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Chinas Economy Chinas economy held the line on growth in 1999, mainly with government assistance, as the economy continues to suffer from the effects of massive, and accelerating, restructuring. The coming year could see some improvement, though the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 MT Insurance Expands Into Maryland MT Bank Corporation (Buffalo, NY) has 650 bank branches up and down the Mid-Atlantic Coast, from Virginia to New York. It would like to have property and casualty insurance agencies throughout its footprint.Toward t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Insurance Soars 42 Percent at Guaranty Bank Guaranty Bank (Austin, TX) reported $66.8 million in insurance commissions and fees in 2005, up 42 percent from $47 million in 2004, according to the upcoming issue Singer's Annuity Funds Report. This will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 A Surge of Insurance Revenues at First Niagara A key goal at First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (assets: $8.06 billion) is to derive 30 percent of revenues from fee income within three to five years. Or so the Lockport, New York-based thrift company... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Citizens Financial Sells Three Insurance Agencies Citizens Financial Group (Providence, RI) was a Top 25 bank insurance operation last year. That is not likely to be the case in the future. With its announcement yesterday (March 1) that it was sellin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Growing dominance of banks in commercial insurance One can see the growing dominance of banks when it comes to the distribution of property and casualty (PC) commercial insurance, observes John Wepler, president of MarshBerry (Concord, OH). Twenty-fi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 New Insurance Chief at Union Bank Union Bank of California, N.A. (San Francisco) has named Michael A. Janes as chief executive officer of its insurance subsidiary, UnionBanc Insurance Services Inc., one of the 30 largest insurance agencies in the Uni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Missouris First Bank Acquires Insurance Brokerage First Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of First Banks, Inc. (St. Louis), has acquired Adrian N. Baker Company, a large, privately owned independent insurance brokerage company based in Clayton, Missour... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Foreign investors bank bid left hanging China is unlikely to allow foreign investors to purchase controlling stakes in its small and medium-sized banks, leaving Citigroups bid to buy stakes in Chinas Guangdong Development Bank hanging. A source close... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 ICBC increases loans to small firms The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the nation's biggest commercial bank, said Tuesday it had granted 46.3 billion yuan (5.8 billion U.S. dollars) in loans to small firms in the first quarter this y... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 But perhaps the largest question is whether injecting capital and bringing in foreign investors will be enough to end poor risk management. The combined nonperforming loans of Chinas four biggest state-owned banks dropped to 10.11% from 19.15% of tot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 Its not going to be a doomsday scenario for the domestic banks when December 2006 comes, says May Yan, senior banking analyst at Moodys Investor Service in Hong Kong. The December event will only have an impact over the next five to 10 years. HSBC Ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-11-26 When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 committing to open its then-struggling banking sector to full competition by 2007 skeptics predicted the countrys banks would be swamped by better-capitalized foreign institutions. This week, as... 阅读全文>>