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Chinese wall
Communication barrier between financiers at a firm (investment bankers) and traders. This barrier is erected to prevent the sharing of inside information that bankers are likely to have.
Chinese wall
An internal 'wall' between two departments of a bank or other financial institution which is meant to ensure that conflicts of interest do not arise.For instance, a bank might have a corporate finance department which advises on takeovers and mergers, and a fund management division which invests client money in shares. If the fund managers were to hear in the canteen about an impending deal, that would be insider dealing. Chinese walls, 'enforced by a bank's compliance department, are meant to ensure that the corporate financiers don't talk to the fund managers about their work.
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Unofficial name for the area comprising Hong Kong, Taiwan, and either China as a whole or just its Special Economic Zones.
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