China Headlines Adds Data On Banking Reforms, Imbalance-Adjusted Trade

China Headlines, a bi-weekly newsletter associated with ChinaForum, is expanding its offerings to subscribers by adding new financial indicators from the Milken Institute and Xinhua Finance.

Two new statistics measure progress in banking reforms and imbalance-adjusted trade flows and complement other new features of the bi-weekly e-mail newsletter for financial professionals in China. China Headlines recently began offering a regular column on current financial, economic and political issues related to China, as well as other data from Milken, an independent think tank, and Xinhua, China's leading financial publisher.

The new Banking Strength Indicator is benchmarked to 15 top international banks. This statistic is meant to measure the effectiveness of banking reforms put into effect with China's accession to the WTO.

The Chinese Adjusted-Trade and Finance Indicator is designed to measure imbalances in cross-border movements in goods and capital by showing the extent to which imbalances are being contained through policies to promote stable growth.

Both indicators debuted at the Milken Institute's global conference in April.

Read by CFOs, treasurers, FX traders, lawyers, accountants and others, China Headlines provides links to original articles, commentary and white papers as well as a snapshot of China business news from the world's financial press. Content includes articles from AFP and gtnews, and covers banking, trade finance, risk management, strategy and other topics useful to midmarket companies doing business in China.

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Qualified corporate practitioners who are not AFP members may request the China Headlines newsletter at www.chinaforum.com/headlines