Next financial center: shanghai?

Quote from chipmunk:

yeah my dad lived and worked there for 15 years 1992-2007 and he says the corruption is amazing. no place for Westerners to do bizz. Stealing, cheating, etc is all part of life out there. (bit like London and W.S. now )

RACIST PRICK.
 
Nowhere on the planet has a chance of taking over London or NY as the financial capital of the world unless they speak English as their first language.

English is the global language of money and commerce and that's never going to change.

Sure, there are 1billion plus mandarin speakers out there, trouble is 80%+ of them are peasants which means they count for nothing (sad, but true).
 
Quote from AK100:

Nowhere on the planet has a chance of taking over London or NY as the financial capital of the world unless they speak English as their first language.

English is the global language of money and commerce and that's never going to change.

Sure, there are 1billion plus mandarin speakers out there, trouble is 80%+ of them are peasants which means they count for nothing (sad, but true).

never say never, 400 years ago the lingua franca of international business was spanish
 
AK ...

You do raise the single biggest impediment to their growth. English is the Lingua franca but the Chinese have recognized that and make it esier and easier for English speakers to do business there.

If the Chinese were native English speakers I would have predicted they would come into their own in five to ten years ... not twenty.



Quote from AK100:

Nowhere on the planet has a chance of taking over London or NY as the financial capital of the world unless they speak English as their first language.

English is the global language of money and commerce and that's never going to change.

Sure, there are 1billion plus mandarin speakers out there, trouble is 80%+ of them are peasants which means they count for nothing (sad, but true).
 
Quote from chipmunk:

are you kidding me? Nice palce to visit for a few days then the hummidity and crowds drive you mad.....I would never live there. Imagine Houston July all year round. :-( (and it's f**** expensive)
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Singapore is a nice place to live?

not everyone likes to live in the woods
 
Quote from EMRGLOBAL:

But what if American people are fed up with Wall street bankers, trading ,hedge fund and all that finance activities:
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You definitly do not work on the "Street" or an industry that deals with Financial World.

How so? as a matter of fact, I did work for one of the biggest fixed income house for several years.
 
Quote from AK100:

Nowhere on the planet has a chance of taking over London or NY as the financial capital of the world unless they speak English as their first language.

English is the global language of money and commerce and that's never going to change.

Sure, there are 1billion plus mandarin speakers out there, trouble is 80%+ of them are peasants which means they count for nothing (sad, but true).

Not a problem, a lot of Chinese speak English, maybe broken english, but nevertheless english.

Language will not be a problem at all, because smart people can learn to speak chinese very well, if there is money to be made in shangai.

Assuming China will not collapse in next 20 years, its GDP will overtake US in 15 years. I couldn't imagine the world biggest economy have no fixed income,credit market.
 
Quote from jagadish:

Why not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai
And since only 1% of Indians invest via stock markets its all yours.

To be able to become world financial center, you need to be risk takers.
Indian people are too conservative and they deem trading as gambling. Basically India doesn't have that kind of financial center cultures even though it claims it has British legal system. Maybe Mumbai will be Shanghai's back office some day and China outsource the quantitative analysis, programming, model development , trade settlements etc to mumbai.
 
Quote from traderzhangSan:

To be able to become world financial center, you need to be risk takers.
Indian people are too conservative and they deem trading as gambling. Basically India doesn't have that kind of financial center cultures even though it claims it has British legal system. Maybe Mumbai will be Shanghai's back office some day and China outsource the quantitative analysis, programming, model development , trade settlements etc to mumbai.

Another RACIST PRICK.
 
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