国际汇款巨头逐鹿中国

同门相逢 由于全球经济一体化趋势的加强,国际间的贸易与非贸易往来日渐频繁,全球资本流动量也随之增大.因此,国际汇款市场蕴藏着巨大商机.据移民年度报告(Migrant Year Book)统计,旅居海外的华人已超过5000万人,这是一个境外资金汇入中国的庞大群体.进入21世纪,中国经济一枝独秀,出国留学、经商、旅游逐渐兴起,国内客户把外汇款项汇出国外的需求不断增加.有资料显示,美国国宝银行每年通过中国农业银行厦门分行汇往国内的国际个人汇款达20亿美元.中国银行福州分行1994年国际个人汇入汇款仅为428万美元,到2000年达6000万美元,6年时间增长12倍.由此可见,中国国际汇款市场潜力巨大,并引起了国际金融巨头们的高度关注.     

国际汇款巨头逐鹿中国

都嫌邮政单调,争与银行合作 据移民年度报告Migrant Year Book统计,目前旅居海外的华人已超过5000万人,这是一个境外资金汇入中国的庞大群体.进入21世纪,中国经济一枝独秀,出国留学、经商、旅游逐渐兴起,国内客户把外汇款项打出国外的需求不断增加.有资料显示,美国国宝银行每年通过中国农业银行厦门分行汇往国内的国际个人汇款达20亿美元.中国银行福州分行1994年国际个人汇入汇款仅为428万美元,到2000年达6000万美元,6年时间增长12倍.     

万事达卡与星展银行推出万事达卡MoneySend^TM汇款解决方案

（本刊讯）2008年11月13日,万事达卡与星展银行宣布推出万事达卡MoneySend^TM汇款解决方案。该方案借助万事达卡全球支付网络和银行卡产品,使个人国际转账和汇款更加便捷高效。万事达卡东南亚地区运营和先进支付产品副总裁David Chan表示,国际汇款业务市场蕴含着巨大的商机,研究表明2010年全球务工人员的汇款额将从3690亿美元增长到4560亿美元;MoneySend^TM增强了万事达卡信用卡、借记卡和预付卡的功能,使持卡人能够更高效、安全地办理国内和跨境汇款业务。     

银行业国际化“渐入佳境”——中国工商银行董事长姜建清接受本刊独家专访

在经济全球化迅猛发展的今天,国际化战略已成为金融全球化发展的迫切要求,国际银行业跨境并购规模逐年扩大。2006年全球银行业并购总规模为9026亿美元,其中跨境并购为3594亿美元,占比39．8％。发达国家银行业跨境购并规模从1996年的3亿美元上升至2006年的2738亿美元,增长910倍。同期非发达国家银行业跨境购并从无升至856亿美元。     

读懂市场，认清客户，实现国际业务的持续发展

从2005年的70亿美元到2006年的125亿美元，再到2007年的248亿美元，建设银行深圳分行每年的国际结算量都以翻番的速度增长，“加速发展。不断超越”已成为2006年以来深圳分行国际业务发展的主题词。2008年，分行继续铸就着国际业务发展史上的又一个辉煌：累计完成国际结算量481亿美元，与2007年同期相比增幅达94％，完成年度计划的107％，国际结算量在建行系统内排名由第4位上升到第3位，在深圳同业中，由第4位上升到第2位，实现了历史性跨越。此外，2008年深圳分行完成结售汇量160亿美元，与2007年相比增幅为39％；实现国际业务收入3．29亿元人民币，比2007年增幅为71％。     

“走出去”战略:任重而道远—中国对外直接投资差距分析

<正>近年来,伴随着中国经济国际竞争力的不断增强和“走出去”战略的逐步实施,中国已成为新兴的对外直接投资来源地。2005年我国非金融类企业对外直接投资达到122．6亿美元,年底存量达到572亿美元,相当于中国1985年对外直接投资存量的437倍,1990年的22倍。2006年我国非金融类企业对外直接投     

联邦快递搅局中国快递市场

2006年,国际四大快递公司美国联邦快递FedE、美国UPS、荷兰TNT以及德国DHL开始选择以收购的方式进入中国市场——TNT以1.35亿美元收购华宇物流,联邦快递以4亿美元收购天津大田。四大巨头占据了中国国际速递市场80%以上的份额。     

联邦快递搅局中国快递市场

2006年,国际四大快递公司美国联邦快递FedE、美国UPS、荷兰TNT以及德国DHL开始选择以收购的方式进入中国市场—TNT以1.35亿美元收购华宇物流,联邦快递以4亿美元收购天津大田。四大巨头占据了中国国际速递市场80％以上的份额。     

抓营销抢先机 控风险促发展——宣城分行外汇业务发展纪实

近年来,宣城分行紧紧抓住当地外向型经济加速发展的有利时机,多策并举,大力拓展国际业务,严格控制业务风险,实现了国际业务的良性、快速发展。该行国际结算量从2003年末的4500万美元上升到2006年末的1.5亿美元,今年更是加快了发展步伐,到9月末全行已实现国际结算1.5亿美元,完成省分行年度计划的120%,在全省排名第一;国际结算市场份额从2003年末的24%上升到2006年末的60%,占居宣城市国际结算市场的大半壁江山。2004年-2006年在省分行外汇业务综合考核中,该行连续三年名列前三,并获总行国际业务先进单位。     

提升服务水平 强化宣传营销——看农行南京市新街口支行营业部如何打造个人外汇业务精品网点

农业银行南京市新街121支行营业部地处市中心繁华商业区，几年来，营业部坚持加快个人金融业务有效发展步伐不放松，坚持加速整体业务结构调整不动摇，在业务发展上取得了不错的业绩。至今年6月末，本外币各项存款9.41亿元，累放个人消费贷款15．59亿元，累计办理因私购汇107万美元，汇利丰167万美元，外卡收单1200万元，国际借记卡150张，西联汇款2003笔190．4万美元，从2002年开办西联汇款业务以来，营业部业务量一直位居全省农行榜首。2003年营业部被农总行和西联公司授予西联汇款“旗舰店”称号。     

Almanac of anticipations: The age of affluence—of anticipation—of anxiety—of automation—of discontinuity—of longing—of overkill—of space exploration

With this survey of developments in the futures field since 1945, I.F. Clarke completes his present series for Futures. He makes two major points: that forecasting techniques have become essential tools in the management of change; and that nuclear weapons and ecological problems have added a moral dimension to the study of the future. In the next issue of Futures he will start a new series on the range of future-thinking in the USA, from the expectations of the first settlers to the Star Wars programme.     

基金公司经营融资融券业务的问题审视

融资融券业务正式运营已经开展,为证券市场带来了革命性的改革,作为证券市场的一大主体,基金公司面对融资融券也迎来了新的发展方向和挑战,本文从融资融券业务的运行机制入手,分析了基金公司融资融券的新契机,并对其即将面临的问题进行审视和剖析,进而提出策略建议.     

对基层人民银行科技工作的几点建议

银监会分设后,人民银行将专司货币政策、金融稳定、金融服务三大职能。作为人民银行的分支机构,基层人民银行的工作重心也将从金融监管调整到这三大职能上来。人民银行的科技部门,就要积极运用科技手段,为人民银行履行新的职能发挥“服务、支持、促进、发展”的作用。一、围绕三大职能搭建五大平台经过“六五打基础、七五作准备、八五大发展”几个阶段后,人民银行相继实现了核算电算化、清算网络化和办公信息化。特别是近一两年来,陆续开通了大额支付系统、信贷登记咨询系统、会计四集中系统、金融信息服务网站等系统,人民银行信息化水平又…     

社会主义所有制形式的改革、完善与共产党执政能力的提高

在中国,所有制形式的调整、改革与完善,先进生产力的发展,党的执政能力建设,是社会主义建设过程中密切结合在一起的三个不同层面的发展关系.应在相互促进和共同提高中促进社会的和谐发展,保证社会主义现代化建设战略目标的顺利实现.     

Summary of Results of Survey of Seminar Attendees

Abstract

The Society of Actuaries undertook a three-phase research project on mortality improvement in the three NAFTA countries: Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Phase 1 consisted of a literature review of papers on projecting mortality levels in the future and a study of the trend in mortality improvement during this century. Phase 2 consisted of a discussion of different facets of modeling mortality rates at a seminar attended by 79 experts (actuaries, demographers, economists, and medical researchers) representing different countries. The last session of the seminar consisted of the completion of a survey by the attendees to obtain input for Phase 3, which would analyze the impact of mortality improvement on the social security system of each country. This paper summarizes the results of the survey.

The survey results illustrate the difficulty in forecasting mortality levels, because the effects of many factors that could have significant impact on mortality rates are unknown. This suggests the need for dynamic forecasting, which allows for the possibility of random shocks. A majority of the survey respondents believe that stochastic forecasting models, despite their complexity, have significant potential to add value. Respondents also believe that both historical data and cause-specific mortality forecasts are useful as input and also in validating forecasts of the aggregate levels of mortality. The challenge is to develop more sophisticated forecasting models to produce results that are relatively easy to interpret and to communicate these results to the desired audiences, including the public and policymakers.

The survey results suggest that the aggregate effect of lifestyle changes, medical advances, diseases, catastrophe, and physical environmental changes is an increase in life span. However, there is much uncertainty about the future. Respondents expect that beyond the year 2020 the mean annual rate of reduction in mortality for males age 65 and over will average about 0.58% for Canada, 0.76% for Mexico, and 0.67% for the U.S. The results for the female age 65 and over population are 0.64%, 0.83%, and 0.70%, respectively. The age 65 and over population is expected to see larger percentage reductions in mortality than the 0–14 and 15–64 populations. The reductions in male and female mortality will be ultimately the same, and the mortality levels in the three countries will ultimately converge, although differences may persist for decades.     

The Usefulness of Measures of Consistency of Discretionary Components of Accruals in the Detection of Earnings Management

Abstract:  Prior research has shown the prevalence of measurement error in models used to estimate aggregate discretionary accruals. In these models, the incremental information content of the various components of accruals is ignored. Limited prior research and data gathered from firms under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) litigation indicate that managers use either one or more than one component of accruals simultaneously, in a consistent way to manipulate bottom-line earnings in a given direction. I propose two measures that capture the consistency between the discretionary components of accruals and test their significance in earnings management (EM) detection in firms that have artificially added accrual manipulation and firms that were targeted by the SEC for accrual manipulation. There is evidence that this information is incrementally useful in detecting EM. This finding paves the way for improvements in the discretionary accruals measure by including consistency information from the components of aggregate accruals.     

Properties of time-series estimates of degree of leverage measures

Empirical studies suggest that time-series regression estimates of the degrees of operating and financial leverage have a tendency to produce measures less than one. According to ex ante theory, these measures should be greater than one for firms operating above the breakeven point. There have also been suggestions that the biases in these estimates may be attributable to an underlying increase in unit sales. This work presents evidence that these counter-intuitive measures are produced by changes in the firm's operating parameters (unit price, variable cost, fixed cost and interest payments). It further suggests that attempts to control for the underlying change in unit sales substantially increase the volatility of predicted estimates.     

浅议金融机构的举证责任

金融纠纷案件是当事人以存单或进账单、对账单、存款合同、保险单、票据、证券等凭证为主要证据向人民法院提出诉讼的案件,对于不同种类金融纠纷的当事人的举证责任,我国现行的金融法律、法规及司法解释有不同的规定。由于金融机构的特殊法律地位,发生金融纠纷时存在有关当事人将最后偿付风险转移给金融机构承担的主观故意,在客观上会使金融机构难以提供相应的证据来对抗不法债权人的诉讼请求,而导致金融机构败诉。为此,对金融诉讼案件中金融机构的举证责任加以研究具有重要的实践意义。     

Separation of Unit of Account from Medium of Exchange

The separation of a unit of account (UoA) from a medium of exchange (MoE) in the commodity–money system is investigated by considering explicitly a seller's choice of UoA in terms of either an MoE or a unit of metal weight. If the likelihood of debasement of an MoE and its rate are high enough, the price is posted in terms of a unit of metal weight rather than an MoE. Interestingly, this MoE–UoA separated equilibrium yields the flexible nominal price, whereas an MoE–UoA integrated equilibrium yields the sticky one. This implies the nominal price rigidity in the fiat‐money system where MoE and UoA are integrated.     

银行软件项目外包管理分析

一、引言随着国民经济的不断发展,银行业务与外部企业的联系越来越密切。银行正逐步成为现代经济活动的中心,作为数据处理核心的银行业务应用也越来越大型化、越来越复杂化,因此许多银行也把软件项目逐步由原来的自主开发转变为与公司合作的方式,或直接外包开发的方式,银行本身的技术人员也逐步由开发转向项目管理。二、项目外包的分类银行项目的外包有以下几种情况:①部分子系统外包,有时由于银行的软件项目太大,单靠银行自身的开发力量基本无法在预定的时间内完成项目,只好把相对独立的部分外包;②直接购买软件公司的成熟产品,有些金融软…