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Trade finance signifies financing for trade, and it concerns both domestic and international trade transactions. A trade transaction requires a seller of goods and services as well as a buyer. Various intermediaries such as banks and financial institutions can facilitate these transactions by financing the trade.
While a seller (or exporter) can require the purchaser (an importer) to prepay for goods shipped, the purchaser (importer) may wish to reduce risk by requiring the seller to document the goods that have been shipped. Banks may assist by providing various forms of support. For example, the importer's bank may provide a letter of credit to the exporter (or the exporter's bank) providing for payment upon presentation of certain documents, such as a bill of lading. The exporter's bank may make a loan (by advancing funds) to the exporter on the basis of the export contract.
Other forms of trade finance can include Documentary Collection, Trade Credit Insurance, Factoring or forfaiting. Some forms are specifically designed to supplement traditional financing.
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific (abbreviated as Asia-Pac, AsPac, APAC, APJ, JAPA or JAPAC) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The region varies in size depending on which context, but it typically includes much of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.
The term may also include Russia (on the North Pacific) and countries in the Americas which are on the coast of the Eastern Pacific Ocean; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, for example, includes Canada, Chile, Russia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
Alternatively, the term sometimes comprises all of Asia and Australasia as well as small/medium/large Pacific island nations (Asia Pacific and Australasian Continent) - for example when dividing the world into large regions for commercial purposes (e.g. into Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific).
On the whole there appears to be no clear cut definition of "Asia Pacific" and the regions included change as per the context.
Though imprecise, the term has become popular since the late 1980s in commerce, finance and politics. In fact, despite the heterogeneity of the regions' economies, most individual nations within the zone are emerging markets experiencing rapid growth. (Compare the concept/acronym APEJ or APeJ - Asia-Pacific excluding Japan.)
Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the southern coast of China at the Pearl River Estuary and the South China Sea. Hong Kong is known for its skyline and deep natural harbour. It has a land area of 1104 km2 and shares its northern border with Guangdong Province of Mainland China. With around 7.2 million inhabitants of various nationalities, Hong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated metropolises.
After the First Opium War (1839–42), Hong Kong became a British colony with the perpetual cession of Hong Kong Island, followed by Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and a 99-year lease of the New Territories from 1898. Hong Kong remained under British control for about a century until the Second World War, when Japan occupied the colony from December 1941 to August 1945. After the Surrender of Japan, the British resumed control. In the 1980s, negotiations between the United Kingdom and the China resulted in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which provided for the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong on 30 June 1997. The territory became a special administrative region of China with a high degree of autonomy on 1 July 1997 under the principle of one country, two systems. Disputes over the perceived misapplication of this principle have contributed to popular protests, including the 2014 Umbrella Revolution.
Asia (i/ˈeɪʒə/ or /ˈeɪʃə/) is the Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometers, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. It has historically been home to the world's first modern civilizations and has always hosted the bulk of the planet's human population. Asia is notable for not only overall large size and population, but unusually dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4.4 billion people. The boundaries of Asia are traditionally determined as that of Eurasia, as there is no significant geographical separation between Asia and Europe. The most commonly accepted boundaries place Asia to the east of the Suez Canal, the Ural River, and the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean.
Trade involves the transfer of the ownership of goods or services from one person or entity to another in exchange for other goods or services or for money. Possible synonyms of "trade" include "commerce" and "financial transaction". A network that allows trade is called a market.
The original form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services. Barter is trading things without the use of money. Later one side of the barter started to involve precious metals, which gained symbolic as well as practical importance. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and later credit, paper money and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade.
Trade exists due to the specialization and division of labor, in which most people concentrate on a small aspect of production, trading for other products. Trade exists between regions because different regions may have a comparative advantage (perceived or real) in the production of some trade-able commodity, or because different regions' size may encourage mass production. As such, trade at market prices between locations can benefit both locations.
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On this week's UPFRONT, we are joined by Chung Chul, Vice President of the Department of International Trade at Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and Song Soo-young, Professor of Finance at Chung Ang University to hear more about the ongoing fluctuations facing the trade flows in the Asia-Pacific region and measures necessary for Korea to deal with it. 'TPP대체, 아태 지역 통상질서 재편 전략은?' 이번주 UPFRONT에서는 정 철 / 대외경제정책연구원 무역통상본부장, 송수영 / 중앙대학교 경영학부 교수 모시고 아태지역이 직면한 통상질서 재편과 한국의 대응책에 대해 토론해본다. Visit ‘Arirang Issue’ Official Pages Homepage: http://www.arirang.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arirangtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/arirangworld Instagram: http://instagram.com/arirangworld
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ake your business global through exporting of goods and services. This workshop will introduce you to the federal government domestic assistance programs, trade promotion, and export finance agencies. Speakers: Jerry R. Avila, Regional Manager, Export Solutions Group, Office of International Trade, Small Business Administration Paul V. Oliva, Founder and Chief Consultant, Oliva Global Communications Charles Tansey, Senior Vice President, Export Import Bank Joanne Vliet, Director, Silicon Valley U.S. Export Assistance Center Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders play a key role in driving entrepreneurship and small business growth in communities across the U.S. On January 7, 2011, the White House Initiative on AAPIs convened the Summit on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Growth at the Mi...
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Esther Lam is a visiting fellow in the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center. She leads the Northeast Asia Team within the Asia-Pacific Section of the United Nations Human Rights Office. A journalist and researcher before joining the United Nations, Ms. Lam has published extensively on human rights, United Nations, and World Trade Organization issues. Among her books are China and the WTO – a Long March Toward the Rule of Law, A Practical Guide to the WTO for Human Rights Advocates (as lead author), and SARS and the WHO: An Untold Story. We talk with Ms. Lam about human rights and multilateral development banks.
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The Future of Work Insights Series was presented by CQUniversity, Sydney in conjunction with KatalysisX and CPA Australia on 13, July 2017. https://www.cqu.edu.au/about-us/locations/sydney https://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/ https://www.katalysisx.com/ ---- MASTER OF CEREMONIES Phillip Cenere FAIM GAICD Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff. Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Se...
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The Future of Work Insights Series was presented by CQUniversity, Sydney in conjunction with KatalysisX and CPA Australia on 13, July 2017. https://www.cqu.edu.au/about-us/locations/sydney https://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/ https://www.katalysisx.com/ ---- MASTER OF CEREMONIES Phillip Cenere FAIM GAICD Phillip is the Associate Vice-Chancellor for CQ University’s New South Wales region and head of the Sydney campus. He has responsibility for business growth and development, regional engagement, teaching and learning, research and the pastoral care of students and staff. Phillip is an experienced leader in executive education and higher education management and a non-executive director and board consultant. He previously served six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Sen...
Globalization and economic interdependence among Asia's countries rest precariously on increasingly tense geopolitical relations and competing security interests, including the North Korean nuclear threat, the China-India border standoff, and escalating tensions in the South China Sea. As a region, the Asia-Pacific presents the largest source of global economic growth and possesses tremendous business potential in the next ten to 20 years, more so if financial and economic markets are further integrated. But governments and businesses are cognizant that geopolitical tensions may put a damper on these opportunities. What are the anticipated geo-economic trends in the Asia-Pacific? What is the nature of some of these regional relationships and what potential impacts will they have on econo...