Research

Research

Guangzhou Trading

On Thursday, award-winning anthropologist Gordon Mathews introduced an NYU Shanghai audience to the challenges of ethnic integration for foreign traders, mostly Africans and Arabs, in South China’s Guangzhou, which he coined as a growing center of “low-end globalization.”

Revaluing the Commodities Sector

Senior banker Deng Weibin kicked off this semester’s VINS-TCFA lecture series on Wednesday by sharing his observations on global and Chinese commodity markets with finance enthusiasts at NYU Shanghai.

In a one-hour keynote speech, Deng, Executive Director and Business Manager at Global Markets with BNP Paribas (China) Limited, explained the expansion and contraction of international banks in the global commodity markets during the last decade while discussing the past, present and future of commodity business models and functional setup.