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Barclays: M&A and cooperation between banks and financial technology companies will grow.Yu Jianhua, director of the General Administration of Customs, died of illness. On December 10, 2024, Comrade Yu Jianhua, secretary of the Party Committee and director of the General Administration of Customs of the Communist Party of China, died unfortunately at the age of 63. (Issued by the Customs)Traders have increased their bets on the ECB's interest rate cut, and it is now expected that the ECB will cut interest rates by 158 basis points in 2025.

Commercial banks speed up the disposal of bad personal loans, and AMC plays a channel role. With the accelerated disposal of bad retail credit assets by commercial banks, the market size of bad personal loans has gradually grown, and there are hundreds of bad assets announcements listed and transferred in Yindeng Center, involving personal consumption and business loans, credit card overdrafts, etc. In order to improve the quality and efficiency of personal loan non-performing assets disposal, banks have also accelerated organizational restructuring and staffing accordingly, abandoned the past model of simply docking asset management companies (AMC) and chose to actively promote non-performing assets to connect the upstream and downstream of the industry, so as to improve the transfer efficiency of personal loan non-performing assets. Industry insiders told reporters that the personal loan NPL market is accelerating, but there are also problems such as low transfer efficiency and limited profit space. At present, the mainstream model is that banks seek reliable unlicensed private institutions to dispose of personal loan NPLs through AMC, and AMC earns channel fees, and the disposal institutions earn excess income, usually at an annual rate of 8%~10%. (CBN)Bank of Canada Governor Mackler M: Future decisions will be guided by future data and inflation prospects.Russian President Vladimir Putin: His AI technology is crucial to Russia's sovereignty.

CFO of Goldman Sachs: Deregulation by the US government will promote more business activities within the company.The Ministry of Commerce held a special promotion activity of "Investing in China" in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, on December 11th, the Ministry of Commerce held a special promotion activity of "Investing in China" in the Middle East and a docking activity of industrial capital between China and the Middle East. Ling Ji, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of International Trade Negotiations, and Zhang Yiming, Ambassador of China to the United Arab Emirates attended the event and delivered speeches. Zhao Haiying, deputy general manager of China Investment Corporation, Zhang Xiaodong, deputy governor of China Bank, and relevant officials of the UAE Ministry of Economy and Investment attended the event. 40 China enterprises from new energy, advanced manufacturing, biomedicine, information technology and other fields negotiated docking with more than 70 sovereign wealth funds and investment institutions in the Middle East, and some enterprises conducted on-site roadshows. Ling Ji said that the purpose of holding this "Invest in China" activity is to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of China and Arab countries and push the two sides to deepen economic and trade cooperation. At present, China is fully promoting Chinese modernization with high-quality development, developing new quality productivity according to local conditions, and many high-quality enterprises have emerged in emerging frontier areas, which contain broad investment space. Innovation is an important link between China market and capital in the Middle East. China actively encourages venture capital and private equity investment, revises and improves the management measures for foreign investors' strategic investment in listed companies, and supports the development of science and technology enterprises. Welcome Middle East capital to seize the development opportunity of China and deepen cooperation with China in industrial innovation. The participating sovereign wealth funds and investment institutions in the Middle East said that China has a vast market, strong scientific and technological strength, efficient and reliable supply chain and abundant talent pool, and is an ideal destination for innovative investment. It is willing to invest in China and deepen its cultivation in China. Before the event, Ling Ji had a small-scale in-depth exchange with some representatives of sovereign wealth funds and investment institutions in the Middle East, and had a discussion with some representatives of China enterprises.Spot gold stood at $2,710 per ounce, up 0.63% in the day.