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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.
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China is the world’s second-largest retail market and a global leader in e-commerce. Despite the slowdown of China’s economy, the sector offers bright prospects, particularly due to the rising spending power of Chinese consumers. In 2016, ...
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The development of China’s automotive, construction, medical, and footwear industries has been the major driver for rubber demand. The sector’s leading products are tyres, which accounted for more than half of the revenue in 2015 and 68% ...
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China is the world’s largest producer of paper and paperboard, with a production volume of 123.2mn tonnes in 2016. The sector accounts for 0.5% of China’s total fixed asset investment and 1.4% of its industrial employment. The paper ...
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Chile’s banking sector is one of the most developed and competitive in Latin America. It is deep, solvent and highly integrated with the global economy. Despite more subdued economic growth since 2014, provoked mainly by a drop in international ...
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Food manufacturing is one of the key branches of the Polish economy as food output accounted for 11% of the country’s GDP in 2016. Poland has traditionally been a farming country but it has recently started to shift its focus on healthier and ...
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The Malaysian chemicals sector is one of the most developed in the ASEAN region. Malaysia is a regionally important petrochemicals producer, and it is also one of the world’s largest producers of oleochemicals. Malaysia’s leading position ...
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Brazil is among the leaders in the global IT market, accounting for 1.9% of the worldwide sales of hardware, software and IT services in 2016. During the period the country was also the undisputed regional front-runner, responsible for 36.5% of the ...
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Malaysia is the third-largest producer of, and market for, motor vehicles (excluding motorcycles) in the ASEAN region, behind Thailand and Indonesia. Including motorcycles, the motor vehicle industry is dominated by passenger vehicles, which ...
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Mexico is a traditional oil-producing and oil-exporting country. For the last 78 years, the sector has been dominated by state-run energy company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), which took over all upstream and downstream oil and natural gas ...
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