Friday 16 February 2007

新年快乐

A Happy New Year to our South East Asian colleagues and clients.
All my favourite cultures maintain a healthy work/life balance and the Chinese market makers and traders throughout the Far East put family, leisure and culture ahead of profit over the Chinese New Year period. Exactly unlike the British bookmakers over xmas and New Year, in fact.
We choose to work exclusively with Asians for a whole spectrum of reasons, the most important of which we outline below.
In the battleground that is the global football betting marketplace, we prefer to link with the territories that will eventually control the markets. Although there are windows where the Europeans are able to exert some semi-monopolistic dominance, we have no doubt as to how this particular market sector will strategically play out. As a Trading Team, we determinedly focus on the future developments in the football betting arena and Asia will win. We regard the reasonings behind this affirmation as part of our significant competitive advantage and we have no desire to go into any details in this place.
Trading and co-operating with the Chinese layers is like playing chess. European interaction is more like conkers... I would pitch myself head-to-head against any European operator with confidence. I could not make that same assertion with regard to Asia.
We prefer to link with the best.
新年快乐