Article: The Charlotte Observer, N.C., Banking Column.

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May 10 -- CHARLOTTE BANKERS HEAD FOR SHANGHAI TO BUILD 'GUANXI':Some of Charlotte's top bankers are heading to China soon for the first-of-its-kind banking conference in Shanghai.

Banking conference, you might ask? Why would a foreign industry almost entirely run by its national government want to make friends with Charlotte's powerful banking elite?

There are strong hints that Shanghai's bankers and Charlotte's bankers may be doing business together soon. The Chinese bankers, by the way, made the first overtures, according to Ken Peacock, dean of Appalachian State University's Walker College of Business, ...

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