Finance


A Digital World
| Nov. 15 2019
China is close to releasing a national digital currency, with the potential to upend the entire global financial structure.


Eyes on the Prize: Chinese VC Funds
| Oct. 10 2019
Chinese VC funds are muscling out international VC funding in the China market.
Standing Apart From The Trans Pacific Partnership
Asia is seeing growing rivalries—and also the enduring influence of the US. In the post-war years it was.


| Mar. 20 2016
Banking’s Uber Moment: Enter the Blockchain Gang
Ten years from now, business historians will offer a number of reasons financial services had changed so radically since 2016.


| Mar. 1 2016
Banking’s Uber Moment: The Future of Investment Banks
Investment banking has always been a highly cyclical business, growing when the markets grow, shrinking when they shrink. But a.


| Feb. 29 2016
The Banking Industry’s Uber Moment: Lending Start-ups
Bad loans were at the core of the 2008 financial crisis, so it makes sense that lending may be the.


| Feb. 22 2016
The Banking Industry’s Uber Moment: Reinventing Retail Banking
For consumers in mature markets, the financial technology boom doesn’t seem very exciting. What they’ve seen so far.


| Feb. 16 2016
The Banking Industry’s Uber Moment: A More Efficient Oligopoly?
From the crash of 1929 to around 1981, banking was generally considered a fairly dreary business. And between now and.


| Feb. 15 2016
Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent and Their New Online Banks
To boost the economy and help small and medium enterprises get capital more easily, the Chinese government is encouraging non.


| Dec. 2 2015
Fixing the Chinese Economy Means Short-Term Pain for a Sound Future
The heady days of double-digit economic growth rates are now history in China, and even achieving 7-7.5.


| Nov. 2 2015
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Banking on Development
The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is poised to reshape development in Asia, and international finance.


| Sep. 1 2015
Key Challenges Ahead for China’s Industrial Economy
CKGSB’s Business Sentiment Index shows that China’s industrial economy hasn’t improved over the last quarter. Rather it.


| Aug. 28 2015
Yuan Devaluation is More Likely a Sign of Market Reforms
PBOC’s move to devaluing the RMB didn’t just follow weak exports data, but also IMF requirements for more.


| Aug. 17 2015
Making Sense of the Yuan Devaluation
Is the yuan devaluation the start of a currency war, or a reflection of Beijing’s plan to give the.


| Aug. 14 2015