Projo Biz Blog

Joseph J. MarcAurele, president of Citizens Bank's Rhode Island operations, is hosting a discussion about doing business in China.

MarcAurele will be joined by Anne Forbes Van Nest, a senior vice president at Citizens Financial Group; Nelson de Castro, a senior vice president and global trade director at Royal Bank of Scotland, Citizens' parent company; George Qin, a vice president at Bank of China; and several other speakers.

The forcum starts at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, March 11, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Warwick.

Citizens recently established a partnership with Bank of China that it says will help Citizens customers do business in that rapidly developing country.

"Over the past few years, China has established itself as one of the world's most dynamic economies, and many companies are looking to develop their businesses by establishing subsidiary companies or joint ventures in China," Citizens said in a statement advertising the forum.

Rhode Island companies have been increasingly exporting to China, a country long viewed solely as a source of cheap manufacturing labor, The Providence Journal has reported.

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