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Why is China's economy and trade booming? What is really inside Chinese society, banking, management, outsourcing, education, politics, individual life? How to do investing, travel, trade inside China? Talk to provocative thinker George Zhibin Gu. essential business and investment book : China and the new world order, by George Zhibin Gu Reviewed by China Venture News, http://www.chinaventurenews.com The subject of Chinese entrepreneurship continues to resonate with global investors and especially the venture capital markets. George Zhibin Gu, author, business consultant and investment banker in his latest book, China and the New World Order, brilliantly reflects on how entrepreneurship, globalization and the borderless communities are reshaping a new China. The author received his education at Nanjing University in China and Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan in the United States, he holds two MS degrees and a PhD from the University of Michigan.
IFC Metropol eyeing ore exploration in Vietnam
RBC, 20.11.2007, Moscow 10:28:52.IFC Metropol wants to explore and develop ore deposits in Vietnam, the Russian financial company's General Director Mikhail Slipenchuk announced during a Russian-Vietnamese business council meeting in Hanoi today. He said that the company was also interested in the country's property development and investment banking sectors, adding that IFC Metropol is planning to open a representative office in the Vietnamese capital in the spring of 2008. Ten latest news Other news .
UPDATE: CIBC To Sell Some Businesses To Oppenheimer Holdings
TEL AVIV (Dow Jones) -- CIBC has agreed to sell part of CIBC World Markets to Oppenheimer Holdings, the companies said on Sunday. CIBC is selling its U.S. domestic investment-banking, equities, leveraged- finance and related debt-capital-markets businesses. The deal between the two Toronto investment banks also includes CIBC's Israeli investment-banking and equities business and parts of other U.S. capital-markets-related businesses in the U.K. and Asia. Under the terms, five years after the deal closes, CIBC will receive a payment -- at least $5 million a year -- based on the performance of Oppenheimer's combined capital-markets businesses over that period. CIBC also gets warrants to buy 1 million Oppenheimer (OPY) shares exercisable at the end of the period.
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open society: Chinese capitalist revolution and global finance, trade, commerce strategy
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Deffenbaugh will sell to Credit Suisse unit
Deffenbaugh Industries Inc. has agreed to sell to DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, a private equity investment affiliate of Credit Suisse. Financial terms of the sale weren't disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by Dec. 31. Shawnee-based Deffenbaugh ranks No. 34 on the Kansas City Business Journal's list of area private-sector employers, with about 1,520 area employees. The company provides collection, transportation and disposal of commercial and residential waste for about 450,000 customers and owns the 800-plus-acre Johnson County Landfill. Deffenbaugh's senior management team will continue to lead the company. The transaction doesn't include any planned layoffs, Deffenbaugh spokesman Tom Coffman said, but the company doesn't plan to fill any positions vacated through attrition.
Banking Commission approves Premier charter
The N.C. Banking Commission has granted a conditional charter to begin operations for Premier Commercial Bank, a business-only bank being formed in Greensboro, according to an announcement. Bank organizers have applied for deposit insurance from the FDIC, and are currently awaiting approval. The bank expects to be able to open in early 2008. So far, Premier has raised more than $11 million in its initial stock offering, which began on Aug. 1. The stock offering has been extended through Feb. 29 at the latest to allow for additional capital to be raised. Investment bank Samco Capital Markets Inc. is assisting in the final stage of capital-raising, Premier said. .
Ithmaar Bank operating income surges by 115pc
MANAMA � Ithmaar Bank yesterday announced that its operating income for the first nine months of 2007 more than doubled to $174.4 million. The 115 per cent surge compares to an income of $81.1 million for the same period last year. The bank achieved a net profit of $77.9 million for the first nine-months of 2007. The comparative result for 2006 was a net profit of $163.7 million, which included a gain of $105.5 million on the sale of a subsidiary, Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahamas) Limited. Excluding this gain, the bank's nine-month net profit actually increased by 34 per cent in 2007, when compared to the same period last year. "These results are a reflection of the growth in both Ithmaar Bank's direct business activities and the consolidated earnings of the Ithmaar banking group, which includes some of the most successful brands in the Islamic financial services industry.
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