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Alibaba Private Bank to Launch in First Half of 2015<\/strong>
\nYue Wang, Contributor<\/p>\n

Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s finance arm will launch its private bank by June this year, Yu Shengfa, vice president of the Alibaba affiliate, says during a press event today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have submitted required reports to authorities in March,\u201d Yu says. \u201cWe expect to open the bank in May or June.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhejiang Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group, which processes e-commerce payments and is crucial to Alibaba\u2019s operations, won approval to set up a privately owned bank in September. The bank will be 30% owned by Ant Financial. Shanghai Fosun High Technology will own 25%. The rest will be taken up by private investors including a subsidiary of Wanxiang Group and Ningbo Jinrun Asset Management.<\/p>\n

Separately, Yu announced that the financial affiliate has won a 500 million yuan loan from the International Finance Corporation. The money will be used to expand lending to female entrepreneurs. Goldman Sachs, which is also part of the deal through its 10,000 Women initiative, estimates that female entrepreneurs in China face a financing gap of $25 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese female entrepreneurs are very cautious,\u201d Yu says in response to a question from Forbes. \u201cThey don\u2019t want their companies to get too big, but such small companies have a lot of difficulties in obtaining loans from banks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal comes as Alibaba is expanding its reach to small- and medium-sized companies in China. Ant Financial has said that it wants the private bank, to be headquartered in Hangzhou, to focus on deposits of less than 200,000 yuan and loans under 5 million yuan as part of the support for groups underserved by China\u2019s state-owned financial institutions.<\/p>\n

The government in Beijing is also stepping up support for SMEs. China\u2019s central bank, the People\u2019s Bank of China, has cut reserve requirement ratios of banks that give sizable loans to the rural sector and small businesses.<\/p>\n

Ji Min, an official with the PBoC, says financial support for SMEs run by female entrepreneurs lags behind. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very much a blank area,\u201d he says at the event. \u201cIt has a lot of potential.\u201d <\/p>\n

Understanding how People fall into Poverty<\/strong>
\nBy Lucy Mangan <\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, I took part in a comedy night to raise money for the charity Refuge, which supports women and children who have experienced domestic violence. It was a great night: partly because it raised several thousands of pounds for the cause; partly because it was sponsored by Benefit cosmetics, and the idea of a benefit being sponsored by Benefit pleased me greatly; and partly because standup comedian Bridget Christie finished her act with a plea for all laydeez to stop waxing, spraying, deodorizing, strimming and surgically trimming their \u2013 well, let\u2019s call it \u201cthat part of ourselves historically judged to be the seat of all our femininity and womanly powers\u201d \u2013 and instead celebrate our individuality by thinking of those parts as \u201cunique, special \u2013 like snowflakes. Made of gammon\u201d, which was both a new thought and a new image, neither of which has left my mind since.<\/p>\n

Less uplifting, however, was the number of times I heard, when I mentioned Refuge to people, some variant of: \u201cBut what I don\u2019t understand is \u2013 why don\u2019t these women just leave?\u201d<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need, I think \u2013 I hope \u2013 to detail too extensively here the exact answer to that question. Bullet points: an immediate fear of being punched, kicked, bitten, gouged or killed, and of the same happening to your children, preceded by months or years of exploitation of the weakest points in your psyche by a master of the art; an erosion of your self-confidence, liberty, agency and financial independence (if you had any to begin with), coupled with a sense of shame and stigma and a lack of practical options; no money, no supportive family or friends, nowhere to run.<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s concentrate instead on the lack of imagination, the lack of empathy inherent in that question. Because it shapes a lot of questions, and particularly those that animate government policy and the political discourse that will start filling the airwaves more and more as we move towards the election.<\/p>\n

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\nPoliticians, for example, are apparently completely baffled by Poor People\u2019s propensity to do harmful things, often expensively, to themselves. (That\u2019s politicians of all stripes \u2013 it\u2019s just that the left wing wrings its hands and feels helplessly sorry for them, while Tories are pretty sure they are just animals in need of better training.) The underclass eats fast food, drinks and smokes, and some of its more unruly members even take drugs. Why? Why?<\/p>\n

Listen, I always want to say, if you\u2019re genuinely mystified, answer me this: have you never had a really bad day and really wanted \u2013 nay, needed \u2013 an extra glass of Montrachet on the roof terrace in the evening? Or such a chaotic, miserable week that you\u2019ve ended up with a takeaway five nights out of seven instead of delving into Nigella\u2019s latest?<\/p>\n

You have? Why, splendid. Now imagine if your whole life were not just like that one bad day, but even worse. All the time. No let-up. No end in sight. No, you can\u2019t go on holiday. No, you can\u2019t cash anything in and retire. No. How would you react? No, you\u2019ve not got a marketable skills set. You don\u2019t know anyone who can give you a job. No. No.<\/p>\n

And on we\u2019d go. \u201cWhy do the poor not always take the very cheapest option \u2013 in food, travel, rent, utilities or a hundred other things you can find if you or an obliging paid or unpaid intern trawl and filter case studies for long enough \u2013 and stop being so, you would know, poor that way?\u201d someone will ask. And some kind soul \u2013 not me, I\u2019d be off for a lie down and some pills by this time \u2013 would ask if the questioner had ever been under so much pressure that he\u2019d had to throw money at a problem to secure an immediate answer, to get something rather than nothing, even if it meant paying over the odds, perhaps because someone was exploiting your desperation?<\/p>\n

Oh, you have? Well, that bond issue you missed because you had a cashflow crisis after buying the villa in Amalfi, and that box at Glyndebourne for your parents\u2019 wedding anniversary you forgot about till almost too late, have their parallels with furniture for a council flat or with a child\u2019s present bought on punitively interest-rated credit \u2026 and so on, until somewhere along the line our boy would have to admit that he shared the same irrational impulses as people all along the socioeconomic scale, differing only in degree of consequences, not in kind.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand how the people in charge of us all don\u2019t understand. If you are genuinely unable to apply your imagination and extend your empathy far enough \u2013 and you don\u2019t have to do it all at once; little by little will suffice, but you must get there \u2013 then you are a sociopath, and we should all be protected from your actions. If you are in fact able and choose not to, then you\u2019re something quite a lot worse.<\/p>\n

So, these are the questions I\u2019d like to see pursued once the televised prime ministerial debates begin (if enough speakers agree to turn up, natch): have you ever had a bad day? Have you ever been really, really tired? Have you ever been alone, or frightened, or not had a choice about something? If yes, was your response unique among man? If no, are you a madman or a liar? Do tell. Do tell.<\/p>\n

Mantel of greatness
\nIf it\u2019s wrong to feel this happy about Wolf Hall, then I don\u2019t want to be right. The story of Hilary Mantel\u2019s will-be trilogy \u2013 like the story within it \u2013 has everything. An unhappy child from an unremarkable family in an unremarkable village grows up to be an author of genius. She quietly produces book after brilliant book, virtually unrecognized, then finally comes into her kingdom with the story of the Reformation told from Thomas Cromwell\u2019s point of view. Difficult but compelling, uncompromising but \u2013 once you\u2019ve cracked the first 50 pages, at least \u2013 accessible, it is a profound commentary on our times, but also a serpentine thriller, a new twist on an old story, familiar yet revelatory; it wins prizes, is adapted for an acclaimed stage production and has now become what looks from the opening episode a few nights ago to be an equally magisterial television series.<\/p>\n

And behind it stands Mantel, overseeing everything, accepting the prizes and plaudits with grace and without self-deprecation or false modesty, turning out essay after beautiful essay, never boasting of or hiding the depths of her sinuous, subtle, extraordinary intelligence, effortlessly sidestepping every possible curse, temptation and bad habit of the modern age. It\u2019s like a glorious love affair that has yet to go, as I believe the Tudors said, tits up. And still five more weeks of Mark Rylance, and one whole new book to come. <\/p>\n

Study: Poor families pay double the state, local tax rate of the rich<\/div>\n

Middle- and low-income Americans are facing far higher state and local taxes than the wealthy, according to a new report assessing tax data from all 50 states. In all, the analysis by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) finds that the poorest 20 percent of households pay on average more than twice the effective state and local tax rate (10.9 percent) as the richest 1 percent of taxpayers (5.4 percent). <\/p>\n

ITEP researchers say the incongruity derives from state and local governments\u2019 reliance on sales, excise and property taxes rather than on more progressively structured income taxes that increase rates on higher earnings. They argue that the tax disconnect is helping create the largest wealth gap between the rich and middle class that has ever been recorded in American history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent years, multiple studies have revealed the growing chasm between the wealthy and everyone else,\u201d Matt Gardner, executive director of ITEP, said. \u201cUpside-down state tax systems didn\u2019t cause the growing income divide, but they certainly exacerbate the problem. State policymakers shouldn\u2019t wring their hands or ignore the problem. They should thoroughly explore and enact tax reform policies that will make their tax systems fairer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 10 states with the largest gap between tax rates on the rich and poor are a politically and geographically diverse group — from traditional Republican bastions such as Texas and Arizona to Democratic strongholds such as Illinois and Washington. The latter state, reports ITEP, is the most regressive of all, imposing a 16.8 percent effective tax rate on its poorest 20 percent, while letting its 1-percenters pay just a 2.4 percent rate. Four of the top 10 most regressive states levy no personal income tax at all.<\/p>\n

By contrast, the states identified as having the smallest gap in tax rates are California, Delaware, Minnesota, Oregon and Vermont — all Democratic strongholds and all relying more heavily on progressively structured income taxes. Montana is the only Republican-leaning state ITEP researchers identify among the states with the least regressive tax rates.<\/p>\n

In September, Standard & Poor\u2019s released a study showing that increasing economic inequality hurts economic growth and subsequently reduces public revenue. The report found the correlation highest in states that relied most heavily on regressive levies such as sales taxes.<\/p>\n

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