The Bank of China is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the tenth largest bank in the world.
HSBC Holdings plc,acronym from its founding member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London,England,with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint. It is the largest Europe-based bank by total assets,ahead of BNP Paribas,with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021,HSBC had $10.8 trillion in assets under custody (AUC) and $4.9 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).
Agricultural Bank of China (ABC),also known as AgBank,is one of the "Big Four" banks in China. It was founded on 10 July 1951,and has its headquarters in Dongcheng District,Beijing. It has branches throughout mainland China,Hong Kong,London,Tokyo,New York,Frankfurt,Sydney,Seoul,and Singapore.
Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu,the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name Pudong was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank,directly across from the west bank or Puxi,the historic city center. It now refers to the broader Pudong New Area,a state-level new area which extends all the way to the East China Sea.
Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer,corporate and institutional banking,and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom,it does not conduct retail banking in the UK,and around 90% of its profits come from Asia,Africa,and the Middle East.
ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai with registered office in Vadodara. It offers a wide range of banking and financial services for corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and specialized subsidiaries in the areas of investment banking,life,non-life insurance,venture capital and asset management.
SAIC Motor Corp.,Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Anting,Shanghai. Founded in 1955,it is currently the largest of the "Big Four" state-owned car manufacturers of China,namely:SAIC Motor,FAW Group,Dongfeng Motor Corporation,and Changan Automobile,with car sales of 5.37 million,3.50 million,3.28 million and 2.30 million in 2021 respectively.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is a Chinese multinational bank.
China Baowu Steel Group Corp.,Ltd.,commonly known as Baowu,is a state-owned iron and steel company headquartered in the Baosteel Tower in Pudong,Shanghai,China. The company was formed by Baosteel Group absorbing its smaller state-owned peer,Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation in 2016. It is the world's largest steel producer.
Bank of Beijing Co.,Ltd. is an urban commercial bank based in Beijing,China. According to the bank,most of the revenue came from Beijing,despite that the banking group had more than half of the branches located outside the direct-controlled municipality. Beijing Municipal People's Government and the Netherlands-based multinational bank ING Bank were the major shareholders of the bank.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a partially state-owned publicly listed Chinese pure-play semiconductor foundry company. It is the largest contract chip maker in mainland China.
China Communications Construction Company,Ltd. (CCCC) is a majority state-owned,publicly traded,multinational engineering and construction company primarily engaged in the design,construction and operation of infrastructure assets,including highways,bridges,tunnels,railways,subways,airports,oil platforms,and marine ports. CCCC has been a contractor for numerous Belt and Road Initiative projects. It is included in the Fortune Global 500 list for 2016.
China's banking sector had CN¥319.7 trillion in assets at the end of 2020. The "Big Four" state-owned commercial banks are the Bank of China,the China Construction Bank,the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China,and the Agricultural Bank of China,all of which are among the largest banks in the world As of 2018. Other notable big and also the largest banks in the world are China Merchants Bank and Ping An Bank.
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China,Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned aerospace manufacturer established on 11 May 2008 in Shanghai. The headquarters are in Pudong,Shanghai. The company has a registered capital of RMB 19 billion. The corporation is a designer and constructor of large passenger aircraft with capacities of over 150 passengers.
United Overseas Bank Limited,often known as UOB,is a Singaporean regional bank headquartered at Raffles Place,Singapore,with branches mostly found in Southeast Asia countries.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a commercial bank division of First Citizens BancShares. The bank was previously the primary subsidiary of SVB Financial Group,a publicly traded bank holding company that had offices in 15 U.S. states and over a dozen international jurisdictions.
The Bangladesh Bank robbery,also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist,was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh Bank,the central bank of Bangladesh. Five of the thirty-five fraudulent instructions were successful in transferring US$101 million,with US$81 million traced to the Philippines and US$20 million to Sri Lanka. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York blocked the remaining thirty transactions,amounting to US$850 million,due to suspicions raised by a misspelled instruction. As of 2018,only around US$18 million of the US$81 million transferred to the Philippines has been recovered,and all the money transferred to Sri Lanka has since been recovered. Most of the money transferred to the Philippines went to four personal accounts,held by single individuals,and not to companies or corporations.
Ding Lei,also known as David Ding,the former president of Shanghai General Motors,is a Chinese automotive entrepreneur and CEO of HiPhi EV. He has served as the founder and chairman of Human Horizons since 2017. From August 2013 to July 2015,Ding was appointed as the Deputy governor of Pudong New District in Shanghai.
Michael Rafi Sherwin is an attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2020 to 2021. He was appointed by Attorney General William Barr during the Trump administration. He is partner at the law firm Kobre &Kim where he handles international government investigations.
