Indeed, by upholding the highest ethical standards in conducting our business, we have earned the trust and confidence of our stakeholders and our business partners. In banking, trust is everything. By building on this trust and complementing it with leading edge technology, efficient systems and processes, and by running our business with a highly trained professional team, we are able to attract the best customers 64 Issue 6 and business partners, lower our cost of funds, and ultimately, build a strong brand franchise with loyal customers.
Profit with honor is indeed an admirable business philosophy. We endeavor to elevate our corporate governance structures and processes to global standards, constantly monitoring developments and benchmarking against best practices. Shortly after our FRCD issue, corporate governance became an important issue in Asia in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis in And as the business landscape changes with the increased competition, tighter regulations, and technological innovations, we remain resolute in our commitment to proactively strengthen our governance practices to make China Bank more resilient and to deliver greater customer and shareholder value.
China Bank is led by a vigilant and high functioning board of directors and management team with unquestionable integrity, dedication, and competence. Our leaders set the tone of governance and ensure that mechanisms for disclosure, protection of the rights of shareholders, the equitable treatment of shareholders, and the accountability of the Board of Directors and Management are in place and diligently implemented in accordance with the highest ethical standards and strictest regulatory compliance.
Together, the Board and Management maintain a collaborative and productive work environment that drives high performance and quality orientation, consistent with our commitment to deliver strong customer and shareholder value. What impact are foreign investors having on the Philippine banking sector?
On the other hand, having foreign investors would mean expansion on the customer base of local firms that will result to more opportunities for business expansion and employment. This will also facilitate the transfer of technology that will encourage innovation and improvement in efficiency but may post risks to exporters over changing comparative advantage. Also, the liberalization will drive interest rates down due to increased price-based competition.
To overcome challenges, the government and the Central Bank of the Philippines Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas must work together to streamline procedures and information databases for ease of business and risk management and generate more high-quality jobs locally to limit human capital outflow. What is the long-term business strategy for China Banking Corp? The Bank will strive to remain a major player with a sizeable presence in the small to medium enterprise SME and middle markets, while maintaining its niche in the Chinese business community.
On the commercial side, the Bank will defend its niche in the SME and middle markets by strengthening its account management complement and building its credit underwriting and loans processing capacity. The CBS-PDB tandem would be able to generate better returns by leveraging on its combined presence in the commercial, middle, and SME space through the setup of business centers and provincial sales offices.
Newly opened branches would carry the new branch design with existing branches to follow. Chua, president and CEO since and previously executive vice president and COO since , has been a driving force behind China Bank for many years, although the history of his beginnings here hardly fit the storyline of an overnight success. He joined the Bank in as a year-old young deputy, one of the many key hires of the institution that was ripe for transformation.
Armed with a degree in accounting and a Masters degree in business management from the Asian Institute of Management AIM , he had no prior exposure to banking, but this did not deter him from doing great things in the Bank. There was no manual for training of young officers back then, so he designed his own program. He started at the bottom, rotating through stints at all kinds of tasks, including audit, tellering and clerical work. Then he worked at the bank branches to give himself a ground-level appreciation for the operations, culture, and challenges of the Bank.
Two decades and many hats and learnings later, he became COO. He believes in hiring and nurturing the best and the brightest; and that this continuing commitment to professionalism and excellence has prepared the Bank for a highly competitive banking industry.
The Right Partner. For Ric, the challenge going forward is to continue to have a strong management team — one that is a blend of book-smart and street-smart people. He emphasizes the importance of being grounded. His own experience as a branch manager during his first years in the Bank has given him valuable lessons in banking. This exclusive partnership has proven to be mutually beneficial to both parties, providing China Bank customers with a wider array of insurance and investment products and contributing a significant source of feebased revenues.
The partnership has also contributed up to a quarter of Manulife Philippines business. The acquisition of a provincial thrift bank Unity Bank gave China Bank the platform for a new consumer segment of salary loans for teacher. A couple of years ago, he successfully carried out the acquisition of Planters Development Bank, which was merged in into China Bank Savings, bolstering its portfolio in the SME sector. He continued to further grow the institution by initiating the formation of China Bank Capital Corporation, the investment house subsidiary of China Bank, providing clients with a wide range of services that include debt and equity capital raising and underwriting, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and more.
Other accomplishments Ric is a member of the China Bank Board since as the chairman of the Management Committee, vice chairman of the Credit Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee. He is a founding director of BancNet, Inc. Ricardo R. The Three Phases of SSH Key Management It has been said that there are several stages to grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
There is often a similar reaction when it comes to realizing that the back door to our enterprises has been open for a long time due to poorly managed SSH user keys. SSH user keys are a means of authentication, similar in some ways to a password. It connects our processes together for application-to-application data transfers, and the way our administrators and developers can conveniently access their environments. What is unique about SSH user keys, and why should we be concerned?
This equals access to our most critical infrastructure, which is completely out of control. Who really wants to share with the CISO and CIO that the organization currently has hundreds of thousands or even millions of unmanaged access credentials? The workflow has gone like this: An application owner is tasked to create a connection to another application to securely move data between them. The application owner assigns an administrator to set up the connection.
The administrator sets up the connection, generates and deploys themselves the SSH user keys to automate the authentication of the connection, and then tests the connection to confirm that everything is working. If everything connects properly and the data moves between the applications, the job is considered done and forgotten. The problem here is everything that did not happen in this process.
The administrator was able to generate access without oversight or approval. No inventory of the connections the key-based access established was kept. No monitoring of the key was enabled. No Furthermore, data points from the environments of these large financials are uncovering millions of SSH user key-based connections to their most critical infrastructure that cannot be tracked back to owners within the financial institution. In many cases, this access carries root-level implications, the highest degree of privileged access.
Astonishingly, up to 90 percent of this SSH user key-based access is obsolete. Auditors are also finding scenarios of insiders using SSH key-based access to bypass privileged access controls, providing themselves backdoors to applications and infrastructure. Accounts and users sharing key-based credential run rampant, and it is commonplace for users to leverage keys to gain greater access across the environment than they should have.
Phase 2: Resistance It is an issue that financial institutions can no longer ignore and must be addressed within their identity access management frameworks. Phase 1: Denial We are seeing breaches in which the misuse of SSH has played a significant role in exfiltration of critical data. In fact, in the Snowden and Sony breaches, there is significant evidence that SSH user keys were extensively used to gain access to critical servers and data.
Poor to non-existent SSH key management and encrypted access control played a significant contributing factor to both of these major headlines. In addition, many organizations have little to no visibility into their encrypted SSH and SFTP traffic, thereby rendering our intrusion detection systems, data loss prevention systems, anti-virus and SIEM tools ineffective in identifying threats in real time where SSH is potentially being used maliciously.
After denial comes resistance. This usually entails the following: 1. But I have so many other more important initiatives. There are too many stakeholders involved to solve this. A scan of the environment is an eye-opening and humbling experience. It will provide insight into risk around segregation of duty access controls from non-production to production environment. Although the government has not yet established regional or international free trade zones, on March 21, the government signed an agreement to join the AfCFTA.
Currently, intra-African trade is only 16 percent, with intra-Latin American at 19 percent, intra-Asian at 51 percent, and intra-European at 70 percent. Performance and Data Localization Requirements Angola widely observes a policy to restrict the number of foreign workers and the duration of their employment.
The policy aims to promote local workforce recruitment and progression. The same decree limits foreign employment to 36 months and temporary employment less than 90 days on the explicit authorization of the Labor Inspectorate.
Employers must register an employment contract entered into with a foreign national within 30 days at the employment center. The registration includes submission of a copy of the job description approved by the Labor Inspectorate during registration of the employment contract and the payment of a registration fee of 5 percent of the gross salary plus all the benefits.
Companies must deregister upon termination of the contract. Deregistration equally applies to administration personnel and to the board of directors. Foreign employees require work permits, and no employment is authorized on tourist visas. The visa application procedure, though improved, remains complex, slow and inconsistent. Processes and requirements vary according to the labor market situation at the time of application, the type of work permit being applied for, the nationality of the applicant, the country of application, and personal circumstances of the assignee and any family dependents.
Through the NPIL Angola created the investor visa, granted by the immigration authority to foreign investors, representatives, or attorneys of an investing company, to carry out an approved investment proposal. It allows for multiple entries, and a stay of two years renewable for the same period. International oil companies are working with the government on a new local-content initiative that will establish more explicit sourcing requirements for the petroleum sector in staffing and material.
Specific to the oil sector, because of the significance it represents to the Angolan economy, the Petroleum Activities Law requires Sonangol and its associates to acquire materials, equipment, machinery, and consumer goods produced in Angola. Currently, local content regulations offer only guidelines that are loosely enforced, and companies lack clarity as to how much is enough to satisfy the Angolan government.
While this situation may make it easier for foreign companies to comply with local content regulations, this lack of specificity challenges companies in their business planning. For example, it is difficult for companies to compare their competitive position against each other when competing for lucrative concessions and licenses from the government, as local content is sometimes considered during competition for government tenders.
Legal guidance to get the guarantees for investors under the NPIL is strongly encouraged. Regulations around data management including encryption are still at nascent stages. Protection of Property Rights Real Property Transparency and land property rights are critical for Angolan economic development, given that two thirds of Angolans work in agriculture and are directly dependent on land property rights.
While the land act is a crucial step toward addressing issues of land tenure, normalization of land ownership in Angola persists with problems such as difficulties in completing land claims, land grabbing, lack of reliable government records, and unresolved status of traditional land tenure. Among other provisions, the law included a formal mechanism for transforming traditional land property rights into legal land property rights clean titles.
During the civil war, a transparent system of land property rights did not exist, so it was crucial to re-establish one shortly after the end of hostilities in Although, it is possible to transfer ownership over some categories of land, the transfer of State land almost never implies the transfer of its ownership, but only the formation of minor land rights with leasehold being the most common form in Angola.
The recipient of private property rights from the State can only transfer those rights with consent of the local authority and after a period of five years of effective use of the land GRA law. Weak land tenure legislation and lack of secure legal guarantees clean titles , are the reasons given by most commercial banks for their greater than 80 percent refusal rate for loans since land is used as collateral.
Foreign real-estate developers therefore seek out public-private partnership PPP arrangements with State actors who can provide protection against land disputes and financial risks involved in projects that require significant cash outlays to get started. Registering parcels of land over 10, hectares must be approved by the Council of Ministers.
Owners must also wait five years after purchasing before reselling land. There are no written regulations setting out guidelines defining different forms of land occupation, including commercial use, traditional communal use, leasing, and private use. Over the years, the government has given out large parcels of land to individuals in order to support the development of commercial agriculture. However, this process has largely been unsystematic and does not follow any formal rule change on land tenure by the State.
However, in the case that a company already owns the land, it must secure a land property title deed from the Real Estate Registry in Luanda. The complex administration of property laws and regulations that govern land ownership and transfer of real property as well as its tedious registration process may reduce investor appetite for real estate investments in Angola.
Despacho no. The total fee is also dependent on the current value of the fiscal unit UCF. Angola is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO and follows international patent classifications of patents, products, and services to identify and codify requests for patents and trademark registration. IP infringement is widespread, most notably in the production and distribution of pirated CDs, DVDs, and other media, largely for personal consumption.
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are another major area of concern. There are currently no statistics available regarding counterfeit goods seized by the Angolan government. They do not currently have a website, nor do they regularly publish statistics. They publish information on seizures of counterfeit products on an ad-hoc basis, primarily in the government-owned daily, Jornal de Angola.
To respond to the need for increased sources of financing for the economy, in , the Angolan government created the Capital Markets Commission CMC. However, many Angolan banks have a high rate of non-performing loans, reported to be as high as 37 percent.
Plans to return to the internal bond market in have been put on hold due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing downturn in global oil prices. Most of these bonds are bought and held by local Angolan banks. Foreign investors do not normally access credit locally.
For Angolan investors, credit access is very limited, and if available, comes with a collateral requirement of percent, so they either self-finance, or seek financing from non-Angolan banks and investment funds. Since its inception in , Angola Invest financed approximately projects worth USD million. The Angolan National Development Plan provides for the liquidation of unviable state-owned enterprises, the privatization of non-strategic state enterprises and the sale of shareholding by By April , the Government had reportedly sold an estimated seven entities under its privatization initiative.
The BNA implemented a contractionary monetary policy, reducing local currency in circulation over fears of escalating inflation and foreign currency arbitrage. From January to December , the Angolan currency lost percent of its purchasing capacity against the Dollar.
The Net International Reserves, despite a loss of purchasing power of more than percent taking into account the price of the currency, suffered a reduction of 40 percent from to June As a key condition of the IMF loan, Angola cannot have any new oil collateralized debt. The government also resorted to international capital markets and raised USD 3 billion in its third Eurobond issue with investor demand reportedly reaching nearly USD 8.
There are currently 27 banks in Angola. BPC , control over 80 percent of total banking assets, deposits, and loans. Angolan banks focus on profit generating activities including transactional banking, short-term trade financing, foreign exchange, and investments in high-interest government bonds. Banks had until the end of to comply with the newly BNA-set USD 50 million mandatory capital start-up requirement, up from the previous USD 25 million requirement.
In early , the BNA revoked the operating licenses of two banks, Banco Mais and Banco Postal, for failing to increase their capital to meet the new minimum requirements. Angola has been affected by the broader global de-risking trends wherein banks decide to stop lending to businesses in markets deemed too risky from an anti-money laundering and terrorist financing compliance standpoint. In December , Deutsche Bank, the last international bank providing dollar-clearing services, closed its dollar clearing services in Angola.
In , there were no further correspondent bank losses. International banks previously refrained from entering the Angolan market because of the risk of fines and other penalties, but in there was more interest, with several banks conducting independent assessments of the business climate.
In a bid to deal with the foreign currency shortage and substantial foreign currency arbitrage in the parallel market, the government has opted for a managed float for its currency exchange rate. The Angolan Kwanza was pegged at a rate of On January 10, , the BNA began conducting foreign currency auctions allowing the kwanza to fluctuate within an undisclosed but controlled band. Since dropping the peg to the U. The controlling exchange rate is determined by the transaction rate applied on the sale.
Occasionally, the BNA may also sell forex through auctions to commercial banks. Banks may charge a margin of up to 2 percent on the reference exchange rate published on the institutional website of the BNA, considered high for investors. Currently, the BNA also publishes daily for public consumption the rates at which each individual commercial bank is selling and purchasing forex. The informal activity in the supply of foreign currency, products, and services is still winning the daily battle against the formal market, even when taking into account availability, quantity, speed, and stability.
In , the BNA took steps to eliminate remaining imbalances in the foreign exchange market. Commercial banks may assign foreign currency to their clients based on a schedule submitted and approved by the BNA. On the sale by banks to exchange offices and remittance companies, banks may only make foreign currency available in physical notes on a collateral basis, as they must, and at the time of sale debit the national currency account of those institutions against delivery of physical notes.
Payment of remittances in any form and non-strategic imports face a lengthy wait between days for foreign exchange. Priority is given to strategic importers of food, raw materials for construction, agriculture, medicine and the oil sector.
According to the IMF, the government accumulated USD 51 million in new arrears between end-December and end-June , due to constraints associated with correspondent banks transacting in U. The government further accumulated about USD 30 million in new arrears between end-June and end-September and was expected to accumulate an additional USD 30 million by year-end, due to the same correspondent banking constraints.
Investors cannot freely convert their earnings in kwanza to any foreign exchange rate due to limited available foreign exchange. From June 9, , Letters of credit have been designated as the preferential payment instrument for imports. These procedures also apply to foreign exchange transactions related to foreign investment projects that have been registered with the BNA prior to 30 December However, they do not apply to investments made by non-foreign exchange residents in the oil sector, which will continue to be governed by proper legislation.
The following obligations are applicable to non-resident foreign exchange entities that intend to invest in Angola, within the scope of the new procedures: They must be holders of foreign exchange non-resident accounts, opened with a banking financial institution domiciled in Angola, For the purpose of receiving payments, including for the purchase of shares listed on the stock exchange, foreign currency must be sold to the investment banking intermediary financial institution, except in the case of purchase of securities denominated in foreign currency traded on a regulated market in Angola; Transfer income related to a foreign direct investment is only allowed after the project has been completed and after payment of the taxes due.
The non-resident foreign exchange investor is allowed to maintain in national currency values relating to income, reimbursement of supplies or proceeds from the sale of investments to make new investments or convert to foreign currency at a future date. For the purpose of validating the export proceeds from the sale of securities and related income, validate the source of the credit in the bank accounts of non-resident customers.
Remittance Policies In , the Angolan government amended its anti-money laundering previously established in January The new law, Law no.
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After you have confirmed your email, your details have been verified and you are registered, you will receive another email with the login credentials for your live account. How long does it take to open a live trading account?
It takes working days to open a live account with JFD, if and once all necessary documents are provided by the client. How do I open another trading account? What documents are needed to open a live account? Before you are able to open a live account with JFD, we will request from you the following documents: A copy of a valid international passport document photo, personal data, signature, dates of issue and expiry, place of issue and serial number must be clearly legible.
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At JFD, our highest priority is client privacy. Therefore, we apply the certificate-based SSL encryption protocol - also used by banks — in our online registration forms. Why did I not receive an email with the activation link? As we communicate through a large number of emails, there is always a chance that the first email sent to you by JFD may accidentally be listed as spam by mailbox filters. If in any doubt, please check your Spam or Junk folder.
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You can also make your initial payment into an account operated in euro in USD, for example. Does JFD offer different accounts for different investment volumes? There is only one market and only one spread. Each trader is given the same market access with JFD. We believe that this is the most transparent option and that each trader deserves to get the best market access.
Traders trading high volumes are able to get rebates on the commission payable. Rebates can be granted based on a proven volume traded. Please send an email regarding this to support jfdbrokers. Yes, a commission is charged when trading via JFD. From our rates, you can see what spreads the market offers at the time FX, stocks or the spread we need for hedging ourselves in a particular reference market CFDs on indices, commodities.
Does JFD permit scalping and automated trading? Yes, we welcome scalping and automated trading regardless of your trading style. We allow the use of any Expert Advisor automated trading system , except for our Physical Stock instruments. JFD doesn't have a dealing desk and never holds the counter position to the trader.
We are therefore happy to welcome scalp traders. What is the smallest order size? The minimum order size in Forex trading is 0. However, there is an exception on some instruments where the mini lot size 0. For a complete overview of the lot sizes, please refer to our contract specifications.
Opening an account How do I open a live account? Fill in and complete the online Account Opening page, and upload any requested documents. For a complete overview of the lot sizes, please refer to our contract specifications. Opening an account How do I open a live account? Fill in and complete the online Account Opening page, and upload any requested documents. You will receive an email informing you of the next steps, with a download link to our platforms. After you have confirmed your email, your details have been verified and you are registered, you will receive another email with the login credentials for your live account.
How long does it take to open a live trading account? It takes working days to open a live account with JFD, if and once all necessary documents are provided by the client. How do I open another trading account? What documents are needed to open a live account? Before you are able to open a live account with JFD, we will request from you the following documents: A copy of a valid international passport document photo, personal data, signature, dates of issue and expiry, place of issue and serial number must be clearly legible.
A proof of address document, such as a utility bill, no longer than 6 months old. This is a statement of consumption, e. Our Customer Support will contact you if needed. In which currencies can I open an account? How do I open a demo account?
You will then receive an email with a download link to our trading platforms. How safe is the online registration with JFD? At JFD, our highest priority is client privacy. Therefore, we apply the certificate-based SSL encryption protocol - also used by banks — in our online registration forms. Why did I not receive an email with the activation link? As we communicate through a large number of emails, there is always a chance that the first email sent to you by JFD may accidentally be listed as spam by mailbox filters.
If in any doubt, please check your Spam or Junk folder. Alternatively, please send an email to support jfdbrokers. FAQ account management How can I pay money into my account? Please note that we attach great importance to security. For that reason, we only accept payments from a bank account kept in the client's name.
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