摘要
2008年4月2日,是汇丰在华法人银行开业一周年的日子,3月31日汇丰在上海举办了隆重的庆祝活动。当天,行长翁富泽(Mr.Richard Yorke)宣布汇丰在中国正式推出私人银行业务,成为继花旗、渣打之后又一家推出私人银行业务的外资银行。
Foreign-funded banks have grown by leaps and bounds in China in the past few years. Take Shanghai for example, foreign-funded banks with the status of legal person raked in RMB4.8 billion (US$687 million) of pre-tax profit in 2007, almost twice as much as that made by foreign-funded banks in Shanghai in 2006. According to the Q4 Currency Report released by China's central bank, among the increase in RMB loan amounts in 2007, foreign- funded institutions accounted for RMB170.4 billion (US$24.4 billion). With...