Celestial Asia Securities Holdings (CASH) plans to provide an on-line matching system linking banks and customers, for services such as personal loans and fund investment, with its newly launched Web site. The brokerage declined to comment whether the system would be applied to stock trading or share placement. 'E-finance' allows users to search for information about stocks, mortgage rates, credit cards, mortgage loans, savings plans, insurance plans and articles related to finance and economics. CASH chairman Bankee Kwan Pak-hoo said the Web site would include an e-finance business, called 'e-finder', in the next few months. 'E-finder can do the matching for the users who set the rate and terms of financial services such as personal loans, fund investment and insurance,' he said. 'It will help our business partners to unlock their potential for growth by providing them an innovative sales channel.' Some banks such as Wing Hang Bank, Nanyang Commercial Bank, Kwangtung Provincial Bank and Union Bank, as well as insurer CEF Life, had already joined the service as business partners, Mr Kwan said. Analysts said the proposed matching service might extend to securities trading as rumours suggested CASH was planning to form an electronic-communications network among local brokers which could allow matching for stock trading or share placement. The brokerage declined to comment. INTERNET