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The Banking & Insurance sector – often referred to as the lifeblood of the real economy – is of vital importance in the modern credit-driven economic growth model. Among its functions are intermediation between savers and borrowers, ensuring funds are allocated efficiently; support of payment and settlement systems that facilitate trade and international economic relations; and provision of various products that mitigate risk and uncertainty. The accelerating pace of technological change, stricter regulation and shifting consumer habits are reshaping the traditional banking model and pushing the sector towards innovation-led growth.
Activities associated with Banking & Insurance are depositary and non-depositary credit intermediation and related activities, investment banking, securities brokerage, commodity contracts dealing and diverse financial investment activities. The sector also includes insurers, re-insurers and insurance brokerages, pension funds, health and welfare funds, monetary authorities, stock exchanges, and collection and credit agencies.
The third quarter of 2017 saw a continuous growth of China’s insurance sector, amid fears that tightened government supervision and regulatory framework would affect the sector’s performance during the quarter. Following a 6.4% y/y ...
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The wood and paper sector is one of Brazil’s most competitive industries on an international scale. The main advantages of the country are the abundance of available land, the favourable soil and climatic conditions and the high forest ...
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Construction has always been a favoured tool of the Chinese authorities to stimulate the economy - its development closely reflects that of GDP. After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, a government stimulus package of RMB 4tn was used for ...
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Mexico is a regional leader in electric power generation. Since 2013, when the energy reform was introduced, Mexico is undergoing a major energy transformation. It featured the introduction of a wholesale electricity market, and enabling private ...
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In the period July-August 2017 the revenue of the ferrous metal smelting and pressing sector increased by 18% y/y to RMB 1.2bn. Steel prices continued to rise amid stable demand for steel products in China. The positive performance of the automotive ...
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China is the world's largest agricultural economy, consuming and supplying more than half of the world's pork, and supplying one-third of its horticultural products, rice, and cotton and approximately 20% of the world's wheat, maize, and poultry. The ...
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The real estate sector - one of the key drivers of the Brazilian economy in the past decade - was not shielded from the deep recession in the country over the 2015-2016 period. It suffered from oversupply, lower demand, limited loan financing, ...
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According to the Philippines Statistics Authority (“PSA”), total household expenditures have been growing at a CAGR of 8.0% from 2012 to 2016, as economic growth in the Philippines has expanded strongly in recent years, increasing the ...
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In Q1 2017, the revenue of the ferrous metal smelting and pressing sector increased by 23.2% y/y to RMB 1.7bn. Steel prices remained high in the beginning of 2017, although slightly lower than those in the end of 2016, when they hit the highest level ...
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The manufacture of food, beverage and tobacco products in Romania accounted for 5.18% of the whole economy and 23.54% of the manufacturing sector in terms of gross value added in 2015. The market output of food and beverages reached RON 51.96bn in ...
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