Articles authored by Forestville members and videos covering Forestville activities, originally published by reputed media.
2023-02-08
Mr. Kevin Liu was invited to speak at the Shenzhen headquarters of China Commercial Law Firm on "Listing on International Capital Markets — The Booming SPAC Route to Overseas Listings via Reverse Merger".
2021-11-08
Whenever we speak of technology, often such words appear in our mind: high-end, magnificent, classy... No doubt technology is more or less constructive. Rarely do people think it’s more or less destructive, too. Just as a coin has two sides, technology has its good and bad.
Read more2018-10-24
The opening ceremony of the stocks trading on Nasdaq of the SPAC that Mr. Kevin Liu launched.
Watch video2015-08-06
“When God closes one window, he opens another.” For disadvantaged groups who struggle to build wealth, this “other window” is the internet finance initiative that Mr. Fan Di is now vigorously promoting.
2013-02-05
The 75% loan-to-deposit ratio restricts commercial banks' ability to make more loans to support economic activity, leaving capital-starved enterprises longing for credit.
Read more2013-01-16
China Central Television republished Mr. Kevin Liu's policy proposal, "A National Deposit Insurance Corporation Is Urgently Needed". In 2015 the State Council promulgated the Deposit Insurance Regulations of China, placing bank deposits under insurance protection.
Read more2012-12-27
National Business Daily published Mr. Kevin Liu's commentary, "Universal banking: the only way out for China's commercial banks' transformation", advocating that the Commercial Bank Law of the People's Republic of China be amended to empower China's commercial banks to conduct equity investing, securities underwriting, insurance, trust and leasing, etc., in addition to their three traditional basic businesses — deposit taking, loan lending and payments execution.
Read more2012-12-14
At the start of the current century, Bill Gates predicted that traditional commercial banks could be the last dinosaurs standing. Current developments in China are making it seem more likely that he will be proved right.
2011-07-06
Former Missouri Governor Bob Holden met with Mr. Kevin Liu in St. Louis, Missouri.
1999-09-26
China Merchants Bank President Ma Weihua, accompanied by Mr. Kevin Liu, met with Jeffrey Shafer, Citigroup's Vice Chairman and former Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, in New York.
1997-01-01
The paper, "Chinese Commercial Banks and Their Elements of Success — The Example of China Merchants Bank", authored by Messrs. Xie Lianyu (Executive Board member of the Bank) and Kevin Liu, was featured in the book "Das Finanzsystem Chinas im Wandel" (China's Financial System in Transition), published in Germany. Centering on the four core elements of the modern enterprise system — clear ownership rights; well-defined rights and responsibilities; government-enterprise separation; and scientific management — the study uncovers the underlying drivers that propelled a company-owned, rather than government-owned, China Merchants Bank to emerge often as financial consumers' preferred choice.
Read more1990-07-01
The monthly journal "Contemporary Finance and Economics" published the Chinese translation of Mr. Kevin Liu's English-language report, "A Brief Analysis of the Jiangxi and Inter-Provincial International Citrus Market". Submitted to the World Bank, the report reversed the Bank's position that "China's creation of Three Gorges Province and a Yangtze citrus belt would soon leave the Chinese citrus market oversupplied". The Bank agreed to provide long-term, low-interest concessionary loans covering 50% of total project cost, funding a full value-chain project in Ganzhou, Jiangxi — wasteland planting, processing, cold storage and distribution of navel oranges. Six years later the project became the listed company South Jiangxi Fruits. Today the "Gannan Navel Orange" brand is valued at approximately RMB 70 billion and is a signature emblem of the region.
Read more1989-12-01
Governor of Jiangxi Province Huang Huang, accompanied by Mr. Kevin Liu, met with the World Bank mission in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
