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IMF On China: A Downturn is Inevitable

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provides a good summary of many of the key issues facing China’s economy. Rapid credit growth since the global financial crisis is record setting for both its total expansion and its duration. Credit is being…

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World’s Biggest Bank Comes to Greece

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The world’s biggest bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), is coming to Greece, being the second Beijing bank with interests here after the China Development Bank. ICBC, with €3.2 trillion ($3.9 trillion)…

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China takes tougher line on financial risks

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A century-old Chinese bank became the latest target of a tightening financial clean-up in the world’s second largest economy. China’s banking regulator has fined Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC), along with 11 other related…

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