Compound interest on this sum for 142 years has a massive effect.

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"Hong Kong is still the major center, but this has gone beyond Asia, " said Augusto King, Royal Bank of Scotland's co-head of debt capital markets in Asia, talking about investors' interest in dim-sum bonds, also known as CNH bonds, where the "H" stands for Hong Kong.

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