对外经济贸易大学金融学院金融专业英语试题.docVIP

对外经济贸易大学 2002年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试 金融学院 金融专业英语 试题 （英译中，五段，每段20分，共100分） 1.What is a bank? As important as banks are to the economy as a whole and to local communities, there is much confusion about exactly what a bank is. Certainly banks can be identified by the functions (services or roles) they perform in the economy. The problem is that not only are the functions of banks changing, but the functions of their principal competitors are changing as well. Indeed, many financial institutions including leading security dealers, brokerage firms, mutual funds, and insurance companies arc trying to be as similar as possible to banks in the services they offer. Bankers, in turn, are challenging these nonblank competitors by lobbying for expanded authority to offer real estate and full-service security brokerage, insurance coverage, investments in mutual funds, and many other new services. As important as banks are to the economy as a whole and to local communities, there is much confusion about exactly what a bank is. Certainly banks can be identified by the functions (services or roles) they perform in the economy. The problem is that not only are the functions of banks changing, but the functions of their principal competitors are changing as well. Indeed, many financial institutions including leading security dealers, brokerage firms, mutual funds, and insurance companies arc trying to be as similar as possible to banks in the services they offer. Bankers, in turn, are challenging these nonblank competitors by lobbying for expanded authority to offer real estate and full-service security brokerage, insurance coverage, investments in mutual funds, and many other new services. The result of many legal and regulatory changes is a state of confusion in the public’s mind today over what is or is not a bank. The safest approach is probably to view these institutions in terms of what types of services the offer the public. Banks are those financial institutions that offer the wide