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Singapore: Asia's Switzerland for banking
Katherine Ryder 2010-11-04 02:01Earlier this month, several of the most important players in the private banking sector—a clubby, secretive group serving uber-high-end clients—gather...
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Obama's banking end around
財富中文網 2009-06-24 12:42The government wants to make it harder for retailers, industrial firms and other non-banks to own banks. But six months ago, it made a big exception f...
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Get ready for banking's next headache
財富中文網 2009-07-28 05:01A weak economy and frozen financing markets could spell trouble for regional banks with big commercial loan portfolios.By Colin BarrRegional banks can...
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Real estate speculator alert! Singapore is hot.
Katherine Ryder 2010-12-16 02:06Virtually every high-end Singapore real estate agent has an anecdote about the immense wealth of Chinese clients. China's business elite is coming in ...
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Spas take off in Asia
Sheridan Prasso 2009-08-25 05:14Healthy living is back in style in Asia, which means a revival of ancient Asian wellness techniques - and an explosion of spas.By Sheridan PrassoYue-S...
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The bedridden banking recovery
Colin Barr 2010-09-03 11:18The banks are feeling less woozy but have yet to get back on their feet -- let alone lend a struggling economy a hand.Banks had their most profitable ...
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Bank stocks banking on trouble
Colin Barr 2010-05-19 01:19Shares in the big global banks tumbled Friday. The deepest sell-offs were in Europe, where even the promise of a big bailout package hasn't quieted co...
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Are Americans de-banking?
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-09-02 01:23The financial crisis that destroyed some of the world's biggest banks and sent others to the brink of failure have changed Americans' idea of lending ...
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Populism booms in banking and beyond
Patricia Sellers 2010-01-13 06:41by Patricia SellersAre the populists taking over the world?One rabble-rouser, Arianna Huffington, has concocted a remarkable stunt, which she calls th...
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Banking reform: Harder than it sounds
Jia Lynn Yang 2010-01-27 05:54By Jia Lynn YangIt took long enough, but with his proposal to break up the banks, President Obama has finally presented a way to reform Wall Street th...
