The new product development process for commercial financial services

The attention of senior executives in the financial services industry is increasingly being focused on how well the new product development process is working within their institutions. This focus on product development results from the combined pressures of increased competition, a rapidly changing marketplace, new technology, and new and pending legislative changes. All of these factors underscore the need to be able to design, develop, and launch, in a timely fashion, new products that are winners. A strong new product initiative is now considered an essential weapon in both offensive and defensive initiatives.To achieve their goals, executives are increasingly reexamining their organizations' approach to development and launch of new products to determine if the process can be redesigned for faster reaction time, better utilization of limited resources and improved success rates. This article examines the new product development process within the setting of corporate/commercial financial services. Its conclusions provide executives with some broad principles for their own new product processes to help them in their quest for competitive advantage through winning new products.     

Do corporate insiders circumvent insider trading regulations? The case of stock repurchases

We use calculated values of standardized abnormal insider trading activity to investigate for patterns of unusual insider activity around fixed-price and Dutch auction repurchase announcements. Firms are classified according to whether the repurchase is signaling information about future cash flows, about the distribution of excess free cash flows, or about management's attempts to maintain control in the presence of a takeover. We find below normal levels of sales well before the event and above normal levels of sales after the event. This tendency is strongest for fixed-price offers and for firm's conveying information about future cash flows, and is absent for firms involved in takeovers. No evidence exists of abnormal levels of purchases before or after the event. We interpret the evidence as consistent with insiders successfully circumventing policies and regulations designed to prevent the exploitation of private information by timing the pattern of their security sales.     

信息化条件下纳税评估管理模式的构建

近年来,纳税评估作为改善税收征管质效的重要措施在全国各地税务机关得到不同程度地试行和推广。《国家税务总局关于印发〈纳税评估管理办法(试行)〉的通知》(国税发[2005]43号文),首次明确了纳税评估的意义和作用。纳税评估作为税源管理基本方法的确立,标志着由征收、评估、管     

人民币升值对我国出口企业的影响和对策

从理论上讲,人民币升值会使出口企业的预期收益下降,还会使出口企业换汇成本上升,导致价格优势的丧失,对我国的出口企业造成不利影响。但从实际贸易额看,我国的对外贸易额继续保持顺差,这表明只要出口企业能以市场为导向,发挥生产和管理潜力,运用科学的财务管理理念,这个障碍是完全可以逾越的。这不仅为出口企业今后占领国际市场带来了新的机遇和挑战,同时也为支持人民币成为全面可兑换的货币奠定了坚实的基础。     

国内金融市场完全开放对国有商业银行的影响

按照入世协定书中的开放时间表,我国在入世5年后也即2006年底将实行金融业的全面开放。本文认为,我国金融市场完全开放将对国内商业银行带来深远影响:一是在政策层面,经济政策、金融政策、配套政策的进一步开放将使金融业的进入门槛降低,从而带来竞争主体的多元和竞争的更加市场化;二是在市场层面,客户的金融知识的普及和客户的议价能力的提高造成客户对银行需求也在不断提高;三是在竞争层面上,竞争主体、竞争模式和竞争手段的改变将使银行业面临更为复杂的竞争局面。为应对上述影响,国有商业银行应根据自身优势,扬长避短,根据不同情况,综合运用不同战略,以期达到持续发展的目标。     

农业发展银行客户战略研究

本文对农业发展银行客户战略进行了研究。     

昆明国际评估论坛外方演讲综述

在昆明国际评估论坛上,包括国际评估准则委员会维拉主席在内,外方共有16名代表发表了演讲,现综述如下:     

推行QDII加快我国资本市场国际化的路径思考

QDII是在货币没有实现完全可自由兑换、资本项目尚未开放的情况下，有限度地允许境内投资者投资境外证券市场的一项过渡性的制度安排。本文分析了推行QDII对我国资本市场的积极作用，并从审慎推进、加快配套制度建设、主动应对和管理规避投资风险、做好QFII与QDII双“Q”机制的协调、建立投资预警系统、培养具有境外资本市场操作经验的国际型金融投资人才等六方面提出了加快我国QDII制度发展的对策。     

推行QDⅡ加快我国资本市场国际化的路径思考

QDⅡ是在货币没有实现完全可自由兑换、资本项目尚未开放的情况下,有限度地允许境内投资者投资境外证券市场的一项过渡性的制度安排.本文分析了推行QDⅡ对我国资本市场的积极作用,并从审慎推进、加快配套制度建设、主动应对和管理规避投资风险、做好QFⅡ与QDⅡ双"Q"机制的协调、建立投资预警系统、培养具有境外资本市场操作经验的国际型金融投资人才等六方面提出了加快我国QDⅡ制度发展的对策.     

2006年石油价格展望

本文对影响2006年石油价格的因素做了系统分析。认为2006年形成油价风险的主要动因已从需求的波动转向供给的波动;2006年油价将由于供求的脆弱平衡维持高位运行的格局,并且,由于供给链中潜在的危机,油价波动性将会非常大;但在全球经济增速下降、石油需求增长放缓、石油生产国家和公司仍然在努力满足市场需求、炼油瓶颈有望缓和的大背景下,油价在2006年按2005年可比价格计不会大幅上升,不会对全球经济产生重大负面影响。