|
BIZCHINA> Review & Analysis
![]() |
|
Related
Making Shanghai a global financial centre
By Sun Lijian (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-21 14:26 Based on expectations for the future, investment decisions would be changed frequently. If the change is costly in a certain financial market, investors would automatically refrain from investing in this market. A choice to cut down the trading costs in the financial market is to make full use of the market, exploring its functions as much as possible. Some effective means to facilitate circulation in the financial market include free exchange, a free capital market and allowing international players in the market. Regional economic development around the financial centre also has a direct influence on the trading cost in the market. A third factor for the appeal of a global financial centre is transparency. Participants of the financial market have different motives. Investors purchase securities for better returns, businesses issue stocks for financing and security houses supply professional services for profit. All of them need free information flow and transparency to achieve their specific targets. Otherwise, the financial resources could not be allocated efficiently or fairly. The fourth indispensable factor in a global financial hub is a reliable legal system strong enough to check the financial speculation. As financial globalization deepens, the activities in a financial market become increasingly comprehensive and beyond the reach of common individual investors. Institutional investors have created prosperity in regions where global financial centres are located with their unprecedented active businesses in recent years. Meanwhile, their investment activities also caused crises in many other places. It is not rare to see that institutional investors sacrifice the interests of other investors or stability in other countries for their own benefit. A typical example of this is the Southeast Asian financial crisis in 1997. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
|
同心县| 裕民县| 五大连池市| 边坝县| 紫云| 静安区| 怀远县| 花莲市| 韩城市| 若羌县| 谢通门县| 石泉县| 桐乡市| 包头市| 清远市| 平陆县| 鄂州市| 襄垣县| 巴彦淖尔市| 饶平县| 宜丰县| 新民市| 曲水县| 自治县| 阿克陶县| 上犹县| 莆田市| 五台县| 岐山县| 湖北省| 盐边县| 汉寿县| 武平县| 子洲县| 育儿| 桐庐县| 田东县| 徐闻县| 将乐县| 胶南市| 农安县|