| 1 | 'The mandate from Europe right now is to go and find cash, and as much as possible, ' said one Hong Kong-based senior banker at an Italian bank. | |
| 2 | In a phone interview, a Wal-Mart regional executive in Hong Kong was similarly obsequious -- and circumspect, lest he ruffle feathers in Chongqing. | |
| 3 | It' s not mom and pop shops doing this," says one Hong Kong-based banker, describing one of the most common, legal, forms of arbitrage. | |
| 4 | Likewise, Shen Jianguang, a Hong Kong-based economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. said this week that easing price pressures have reduced the need. | |
| 5 | In the first, a Hong Kong-based European investment banker said he was waiting gleefully for the day when Asia-Pacific accounted for 51 per cent of the bank's profits. |