Global Reseach on Financial Hubs ② | Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong jointly build up a regional financial center

2018-May-9       Source: Newsgd.com

“Guangzhou and Shenzhen can join Hong Kong to construct an excellent regional financial center, (each) drawing on their own strengths,” says Nic Nicandrou, CEO of the Asia HQ of Prudential UK and Chai

(Source: Nanfang Plus)

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“Guangzhou and Shenzhen can join Hong Kong to construct an excellent regional financial center, (each) drawing on their own strengths,” says Nic Nicandrou, CEO of the Asia HQ of Prudential UK and Chair of CITIC Prudential Life Insurance.

Indeed, with a growing demand for international financing comes a trend of financial centers rising and competing globalwide with their cluster advantages.

New emerging financial centers, such as Frankfurt, Luxembourg, San Francisco, Boston and China’s four first tier cities –Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, have sprung up.

International financial centers (IFCs) can be either comprehensive or specialised

One of the core advantages of top IFCs is the cluster of financial institutions they attract (especially financial headquarters), prevalent since the 1970s and is now the basic form of the modern financial institution system.

“First appearing in Amsterdam, and later in London and New York, they gather a comprehensive range of financial institutions and capital, and naturally heighten the distribution efficiency,” says Wang Baolian, the Assistant professor of finance from the Gabelli School of Business in Fordham University.

However, specialised financial institutions clustered in a region can also constitute an international financial center. According to an asset manager from Montreal, some new and small-scaled financial centers perform better when they focus on only one particular specialty.

(Source: Nanfang Plus)

In reality, with regional advantages, an efficient transport network and quality education resources, many new international financial centers have risen in power, and they provide brilliant examples for Guangdong to emulate when building up an international financial hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

“To achieve that goal, an open culture, a fair and transparent market, protection of intellectual property, a cluster of enterprises, capital and talents, constant improvement of the financial market and a powerful capital market are needed in the Greater Bay Area.” says Julie A. Monaco, Managing Director Global Head Public Sector Group and Corporate and Investment Banking of the Citigroup.

Organized by Xie Sijia, Liu Jiangtao, Xie Meiqin, Luo Yanjun, Zhang Ying, Huang Qianwei

Reported by Peng Lin, Huang Qianwei, Guo Jiaxuan, Tang Liuwen, Tang Zitian, Zhang Jun, Long Jinguang, Hu Nan

Edited by Olivia Ouyang, Simon Haywood

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(Source: Nanfang Plus)

Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong should play different roles in a coordinated development

As for Hong Kong, Qiao Lei, the CFO of Bank of China (New York) says that it can further strengthen its own overall competitiveness as a global financial center with the help of the Greater Bay Area, and helps the Area become an international financial hub.

Regarding Shenzhen, Qiao thinks that Shenzhen should, with its growing competitiveness and power of attraction, as well as the help of the Belt and Road Initiative, have closer cooperation with Hong Kong in internationalizing the RMB.

“Shenzhen should also use the Qianhai and Shekou pilot free trade zones to promote innovation and international cooperation in finance,” adds Liu Guohong, director of the finance and modern industry research center at Shenzhen-based think tank China Development Institute.

Concerning Guangzhou, Professor Zhang Xiaojun of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley says that Guangzhou should above all strengthen its industrial advantages, and develop industrial finance.

(Source: Nanfang Plus)

“Guangzhou also needs venture capital and funds to be a financial center or the financial hub of the Greater Bay Area,”says Professor Zhang.

Guangzhou now enjoys rich state capital, thriving foreign trade and incomparable regional advantages and is further promoting this resource cluster initiative.

Editor: Monica Liu

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