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Online sales juggernaut Amazon has a toe in the Internet finance business, processing payments and offering loans to the site’s merchants. What about its Chinese counterpart, Alibaba? It does those things, too. It also facilitates peer-to-peer lending, sells mutual funds and insurance policies, and has formed a private bank to lend to consumers. Who’s leading the Internet revolution now?   From a modest start in processing online payments, Alibaba, online media and entertainment firm...

Sir John Sawers, who served as Chief of Britain’s intelligence service, MI6, from 2009 to 2014, discusses at the AIC 2016, his views on the political and social development issues that Europe faces, deepening societal divides, and the additional pressures the refugee crisis is putting Europe under. ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---- Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=creditsuissevideos Connect...

It’s been decades since conglomerates were the toast of American commerce. Many that formed in the 1960s and 70s broke up in the decades that followed, as the trend of diversification gave way to specialization. But in China in 2016, enthusiasm for the conglomerate form is at an all-time high, particularly among Internet companies. Last year, web titans Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent invested a total of $29 billion in 134 businesses.   Alibaba has been the most aggressive of the...

Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross discusses at the AIC 2016, the dynamics that trigger and exacerbate crises around the world, and how new partnerships between private capital and public actors can bring innovative responses to stabilize vulnerable societies. For investors looking for clues as to where the next market-moving conflicts may arise in the years to come and the role that private capital could play in mitigating issues around the world,...

Tomomi Inada, a close ally of Prime Minister Abe, who is seen as one of strongest candidates to succeed him, looks at what’s next for the Japanese economy in her keynote speech at the AIC 2016. Over the last three years, Japan’s economy has been set on a recovery track, employment has expanded by more than 1.1 million people and the country has seen its highest rise in wages for 17 years. Yet ‘Abenomics’ continues to draw criticism from the global stage. Prime Minister Abe set three major...

Greece’s crisis is fiscal, monetary, and structural, exacerbated by political and social volatility, stresses on European unity, and now, a large influx of refugees. Despite this “nightmare” and major near-term concerns, former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras believes that “we can and will make it’.   The Greeks have faced a unique and debilitating confluence of challenges – excessive deficits and debt, diminishing competitiveness, increasing non-performing loans, political...

The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Finance, provides an update on the Sri Lankan economy and the government’s bid to create sustainable growth. ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---- Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=creditsuissevideos Connect with us on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-suisse YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/creditsuissevideos Twitter:...

Trade and Investment Minister Steven Ciobo will explain how Australia has continued to make its own luck, via a focus on unlocking new sources of growth, including through its ambitious program of free trade agreements with China, Korea and Japan. ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---- Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=creditsuissevideos Connect with us on: LinkedIn:...

The Honourable John C. Tsang, GBM, JP discusses the outlook for Hong Kong SAR (China), and provides his views on the importance of fostering economic integration with the Mainland while preserving Hong Kong’s SAR (China) internationally competitive business environment. ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---- Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=creditsuissevideos Connect with us on: LinkedIn:...

A potential future Prime Minister of Japan on Abenomics’ “Third Arrow,” Japan’s need to attract skilled workers, and the Bank of Japan’s introduction of negative interest rates. ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---- Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=creditsuissevideos Connect with us on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-suisse YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/creditsuissevideos...