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Accounting for the Cobalt Boom
By Valerie Hernandez, International Banker In April, after more than two years of upward momentum, the price of cobalt finally began to show signs of losing steam, leaving some to speculate whether or...
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Interview with Mr. Domenic Fuda, Group Managing Director & CEO and Mr....
Hong Leong Bank Berhad (HLB), headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, may win the prize for being the most digitally minded bank in the world, and that’s saying something. This major Southeast Asian...
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The Long Road Ahead
By Agnes Vargas, Director FIs, Asia, Commerzbank Chinese president Xi Jinping calls it the “project of the century”.[1] Part of his roadmap to Chinese prosperity, the Belt and Road Initiative...
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For Better or for Worse: The Linkage Between the US Economy and the Major...
By Robert A. Dye, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, and Joe Bradshaw, Economic Research Assistant, Comerica Bank The US economic expansion is long in the tooth at 115 months as...
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Can US Construction Keep Building?
By Ken Simonson, Chief Economist, Associated General Contractors of America The US construction industry has been sending very mixed signals for the past year. Investors, lenders and policy...
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How Much of a Concern Is China’s Debt Problem?
By Cary Springfield, International Banker In October 2018, S&P Global Ratings issued a stark warning pertaining to China’s mounting debt problems. According to the ratings agency, the country’s...
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Why Have Cobalt Prices Crashed
By Nicholas Larsen, International Banker Few commodities have experienced more pronounced volatility over the last few years than cobalt. This versatile, ferromagnetic metal has been increasingly...
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Thailand: Outlook, Opportunities and Challenges
By Burin Adulwattana, Chief Economist, Bangkok Bank Outlook for the Thai economy The Thai economy is on course to grow by only about 3 percent in 2019, down from a 4.1-percent growth rate in...
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Iron-Ore Prices Hit Five-Year Highs: What’s Behind the Rally?
By Cary Springfield, International Banker Few commodities have enjoyed as spectacular a price boom this year as iron ore has. By early July, the price of this steelmaking raw material topped $120 per...
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Impact on the Middle East and North...
By Dr. Rebecca Harding, CEO, Coriolis Technologies Attitudes towards the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have changed since the programme was first announced in 2013. At first, it was...
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China CITIC Bank International (CNCBI): Redefining Banking in Hong Kong and...
By Helen Kan, Executive Director & Alternate Chief Executive Officer, Group Head, Personal & Business Banking Group, China CITIC Bank International One region in southern China is on the...
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Banking on a Brighter Future for the Developing World
By Khalid Talukder, COO, Elemental Financial Even in 2019, it is clear that the financial-services industry has yet to embrace the full capabilities of new technology, and there is still...
View ArticleChina Accelerates Its Efforts to Open Up
By Samantha Barnes, International Banker At a time when its future growth outlook is the least certain that it has been for several years, China is now taking unprecedented steps to open up to the rest...
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Climate Solutions Lie Within Our Grasp—If We Can Transfer Technology Rapidly
By Marcello Estevão, Global Director, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment, The World Bank Group Solving the climate crisis—perhaps the defining challenge of our time—is often posed as a question...
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40 Years of US-China Relations Have Been Good for the US
By Peter Reisman, Managing Director and Chief Communications Officer at Bank of China USA Since the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and China four decades ago, both...
View ArticleRare-Earth Elements: Will China Continue Its Market Dominance?
“The Middle East has its oil, China has Rare Earths; China’s Rare Earths deposits account for 80 percent of identified global reserves, you can compare the status of these reserves to that of oil in...
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The Future of Work: How Jobs Will Change in the Coming Decade
The robots are taking our jobs—or are they? This has been one of the most hotly discussed subjects of recent years as the startling developmental leaps being made in technologies such as artificial...
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World-Class Pandemic Management Key to Taiwan’s Economic Success
By John Manning, International Banker It was not too long ago—late 2015/early 2016 to be precise—that the Taiwan economy was grappling with a potentially devastating recession as growth in gross...
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Banks in Emerging Markets: 15 Countries, Three Main Risks
By Dr. Mohamed Damak, Senior Director and Sector Lead, Financial Services Division, S&P Global Ratings The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath will continue to dominate credit conditions in...
View ArticleCan Supply Chains Adapt to a Post-COVID-19 Reality?
By Joseph Moss, International Banker By now, most of us have been made painfully aware of the sheer magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the global economy. In particular, it has been...
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