The China Finance 40 Forum or CF40 is a Chinese think tank created in 2008 which specializes on issues of economic and financial policy. In January 2021, the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program ranked CF40 as #8 top think tank in China, and #31 among think tanks in China, India, Japan
and the Republic of Korea.
Shanghai Finance Institute building in Huangpu District, Shanghai
Northern Finance Institute building in the former French Concession of Tianjin
The Franco-Chinese Bank, in French Banque Franco-Chinoise (BFC), full name Banque Franco-Chinoise pour le Commerce et l’Industrie, was a French bank with operations in China and French Indochina, and later in the Indian Ocean and the French West Indies. In 1925 it succeeded the Société française de gérance de la Banque industrielle de Chine, an asset management company that had been formed in October 1922 following the closure of the Banque Industrielle de Chine.
Former BFC headquarters in Paris, 74 rue Saint-Lazare
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company building on No. 9 Bund, where the BFC had its Shanghai branch
Former branch building in Tianjin (rebuilt in 1933), now Northern Finance Institute
Former branch building in Saigon, originally built for the Société financière française et coloniale in 1926 and remodeled for the BFC in the late 1930s; until 2015 Mekong Housing Bank and now BIDV in Ho Chi Minh City