The Big Four banks that already dominate Chinese finance had been more cautious and had ample excess reserves even after the minimum was raised to 7 percent of deposits, from 6 percent.

As the war lasted for virtually the entire existence of the nation, it dominated national finance.

This was also an era of growing intolerance towards the Jews and Genoese, who came to dominate Castilian commerce and finance, while the Castilians themselves were preoccupied with their low-effort, high-profit wool production.

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the city after which New Amsterdam was modeled, dominated European trade and finance.

It's the business equivalent of a neural network and the Chinese have come to dominate business, finance and commerce throughout Asia, outside Japan, even though they are a minority.

For the first two and a half decades of its existence the Bank of Canada, a Crown agency that dominates Canadian finance, remained a cloistered tower of silence.

Equity markets, which tend to pull their money quickly from failing companies, dominate corporate finance in this country, while banks, which often must make concessions to avoid foreclosures, dominate in Japan.

In recognition of his position as a pre-eminent business figure, Mr. Li holds the title of non-executive deputy chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which dominates finance here.

They came to control much of the European economy and to dominate international high finance in the 16th century.

With the wider diffusion of information today, could universal banks dominate American finance in the 21st century as they did in the 19th century?