Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
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Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank. That injected confidence into the market.
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Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.
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I was approached about a month ago. It was unexpected and unsolicited. I've seen how investment banks work from the other side of the fence but I've a lot to learn about how they work on the inside.
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From here on in we can start looking at some of the bank stocks (as targets), because investment banks are going to start looking at banks going in the reverse direction. Everybody wants to be a one-stop shop.
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We're looking at a pretty favorable environment for bank stocks, and financials in general, over the next three-to-six months. But what I would say is that there's still a little bit of an overhang in terms of the commercial banking sector, due to credit quality concerns. So that's going to weigh heavily on the banks. But we could see growth in some of the other areas. Brokerage continues to be very strong,
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Why should the bank raise rates again in March? There's no reason.
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While the report alone is not going to be enough to prevent a 25 basis-point hike by the Bank of Canada next Tuesday, if the core trend is not turned around in the first couple of months of the new year, there will be a strong argument against further tightening.
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The best thing for the Bank of Canada to do is to wait and see.
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It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.
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TCF Financial (has) this very unique strategy. It's (opening) 25-to-35 branches a year and just growing consistently, 14-to-15 percent per year in earnings, which really is a great kind of situation overall for the banking space, ... I think these guys are at the forefront of the trend. They really are serving Joe Lunch Bucket, as they like to say, and so that's a growing marketplace longer term for banks.
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Taking management control in a medium-sized bank would provide a lot of value after the lender is restructured.
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It's a good offer, but it's probably as far as Bank of Scotland can go. RBS will probably step in as a kind of white knight.
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We've seen a steady improvement from a woeful starting position. That will all help the arithmetic of the GDP numbers. The Bank of England will take heart from this.
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We did not get the financial resources we expected. The grants did not come through, nor did the bank loan. Consequently we had to put everything on hold.