Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality. She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs. Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.

China opens up to new deal structures, new participants

Asset Securitization Report

China’s securitization market finally reached a new maturity level this fall, with new participants and new deal structures. The watershed moment was September’s listing of asset-backed securities from China Unicom on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Additionally, two bank-based pilot projects are expected. The two banks, China Construction Bank and China Development Bank, received government approval […]

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Brokerage pioneer in China’s securitization space

Asset Securitization Report

While other brokerage firms have tried – but so far failed – to get securitization projects off the ground, the Beijing-based China International Capital Corp. has jumped ahead of the pack with a fixed-income product based on a telecommunication company’s future income from the leasing of mobile CDMA technology. These asset-backed securities, which started trading

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China’s Weak Logistics

CIO Insight

Electrolux China, a group that manufactures kitchen, cleaning and outdoor appliances for consumers and business users, set up its supply chain system in 2002, after it had been in China for a few years. Since then, the company has restructured its APS (Advanced Planning Schedule) system in the logistic network and installed an ERP system.

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Supply Chain Infrastructure

CIO Insight

The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly despite an underdeveloped  supply  chain network. Most Chinese manufacturing companies do not yet rely on supply chain systems, but the environment is becoming increasingly competitive and many enterprises will find it difficult to survive if they do not make their sourcing, production and distribution more efficient. That makes

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Network Security: An Arkansas Bank Protects Communications Inside-out

American Banker

A couple of years ago, good security meant a good firewall at the periphery of your network. Today, given the wide range of threats that are coming at financial institutions, both internal and external, that is no longer enough. Instead of installing security appliances at key locations, forward-looking banks are turning their entire networks into

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