2013 Hong Kong Financial and Banking system Table of content p. Hong Kong Bank System History of Bank in Hong Kong 1 Bank activities 2 Concentration of bank system 2 Bank main activities 2 The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) 3 Crisis facing 3 Risk measurement 4 Influence from global financial crisis 4 Hong Kong Financial Markets Stock market 5 Trade organization 6 Blue Chip 7 Shares Percentages 7 The influence of global financial crisis 7 Reference
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INTRODUCTION The Indian Financial System is tasting success of a decade of financial sector reforms. The economy is surging and has gathered the critical mass to convert it into a force to reckon with. The regulatory framework in India has sparked growth and key structural reforms have improved the asset quality and profitability of banks. Growing integration of economies and the markets around the world is making global banking a reality. Widespread use of internet banking has widened frontiers
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By analyzing bidder characteristics‚ industry and aggregate market variables‚ we are able to determine what motives are important in the decision to acquire. Our results show that intangible capital‚ leverage and firm size significantly positively affect the decision to grow through M&As whereas the proportion of debt that consists of bank loans and ownership concentration have a negative impact. Furthermore‚ M&As are significantly more likely in industries that were recently deregulated‚ that are
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eurojournals.com/finance.htm Development of Financial Derivatives Market in India- A Case Study Ashutosh Vashishtha Faculty College of Management‚ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) Katra. (J&K) India E-mail: ashutosh.vashistha@gmail.com Tel: +91-941-9216301 Satish Kumar Research Fellow‚ Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee‚ India E-mail: satisddm@iitr.ernet.in Tel: +91-925-8010496 Abstract Risk is a characteristic feature of most commodity
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Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil In early 2008‚ policy-makers in the United States needed to deal with the frightening after-effects of what had appeared to be a glorious housing boom. The most immediate problem was a wave of foreclosures‚ which a Senate report predicted could reach 2 million by the end of 2009. Lawmakers sought to relieve the resulting pain and to preserve the longstanding dream of raising the US homeownership rate. Amidst a sea of lawsuits and
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662 Challenges of the Knowledge Society. Public Law THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK AND THE EUROZONE CRISIS MANAGEMENT MONICA ŞAGUNA* Abstract The Euro is the single currency shared by 17 of the European Union ’s Member States‚ which together make up the Euro area. Since its introduction‚ in January 2002‚ it became the second most traded currency in the world after the United States dollar. With the launch of the Euro‚ the monetary policy became the responsibility of the independent European
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Why do they call these contracts derivatives? Where is the optionality in these contracts? Weather derivatives structures commonly used are: i) cap - a call option; ii) Floor - a put option; iii) Collar - a put and a call option‚ usually with little or no premium; iv) Swap - a derivative with a profit and loss profile of a futures contract v) Digital option - an option that pays either a predetermined amount if acertain temperature or degree day level is reached‚ or nothing at all in other
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expects to do so at some time in the future. A long hedge is appropriate when a company knows it will have to purchase an asset in the future. It can also be used to offset the risk from an existing short position. Problem 3.2. Explain what is meant by basis risk when futures contracts are used for hedging. Basis risk arises from the hedger’s uncertainty as to the difference between the spot price and futures price at the expiration of the hedge. Problem 3.3. Explain what is meant by
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of 1980 ... .. 8 Case study: BNP Paribas .. . 11 Conclusion: Islamic banking and finance opportunities in the UAE ... 13 Appendix Bibliography 1.0 Introduction: Adapting to Islamic finance practices In the banking and finance sector of the UAE‚ Islamic finance practices are the law of the land. Foreign banks‚ financial institutions (FIs) and investment companies licensed to operate in the country have adapted to the norms. Their core
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U.S. financial crisis has evolved into a global economic crisis on China’s enterprises‚ especially SMEs brought unprecedented challenges to survive . How to improve the ability to control the financial risks ‚ the economic crisis ‚ to be placed in front of the key issues for SMEs . Through the financial risk content ‚ features and causes of the crisis and its impact analysis ‚ so as to arrive for the improvement of SME financial risk or crisis control. Keywords financial crisis ; financial risks
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