Peer-to-peer lender, China Rapid Finance, announced on Tuesday it has formed partnerships with two financial institutions, China United SME Guarantee Corp. (Sino Guarantee) and Bank of Shanghai. The lender stated Sino Guarantee would provide ongoing…
Tagged By banking
China, France officials vow to further boost economic, financial ties
Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai and French Finance Minister Michel Sapin have co-chaired the fourth China-France High Level Economic and Financial Dialogue. Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai (L), who is in Paris for the fourth…
Rise of the robo-adviser in mainland finance
They provide customized investment advice to individual investors based on big data and artificial intelligence, and their momentum of growth has picked up in China as a batch of internet companies and traditional financial institutions…
BMO wins China approval to quote loonie against yuan
Bank of Montreal said on Tuesday it had been named the first and only Canadian bank approved by the People’s Bank of China to quote the Canadian dollar against the yuan as a market maker…
Credit Suisse hires banker in China onshore private banking push: memo
HONG KONG Credit Suisse has hired former RBS banker Rick Meng as head of China onshore private banking, according to an internal memo, as the Swiss private bank looks to tap the wealth management business…
China's currency just hit lows not seen since the financial crisis
China’s currency keeps sinking against the dollar. Since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last week, Beijing has allowed the yuan to tumble. The fall continued Tuesday, with one dollar buying around 6.86 yuan,…
China October central bank FX sales at $39.2 billion, easing from September
BEIJING China’s central bank sold a net $39.2 billion worth of foreign exchange in October, data showed on Monday, easing from an eight-month high hit in September but still indicating continued official interventions to support…
Will China’s Financial Bust Ever Come?
China’s reading is the nation’s highest on record in the gauge released by the Bank for International Settlements. It’s the single most reliable indicator of looming financial crises, according to the BIS, which found in…
Investors dodge China's whack-a-mole outflow curbs
TRADE CHANNELS Jolyon Ellwood Russell, partner at lawyers Simmons & Simmons, said international anti-money-laundering monitor Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had identified four main channels to bring money out of China: cash smuggling in vans…
German Displeasure Rises Over China FDI Policy
Germany’s bellyache about China’s foreign direct investment policy is a sign of Europe’s growing displeasure with what is perceived as an imbalance in the economic ties between the Old Continent and the Asian giant. Sectors…
China’s Debt Addiction Could Lead to a Financial Crisis
The China state-capitalism model was the talk of the annual Davos Economic Conference in 2011. Not only had the Middle Kingdom managed to deftly sidestep the 2008-09 global credit crisis, but its gross domestic product…
What I read this week: A digital payment infra for India and if China is nearing a debt crisis
The debt treadmill In June, Torsten Slok, chief international economist at Deutsche Bank Securities, published a chart showing that China’s credit bubble exceeded even that of the US in 2007, on the cusp of the…
Deutsche Bank stake in China's Harvest offers some comfort in troubled times
HONG KONG In the checkered history of foreign-sino joint ventures, Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) 30 percent stake in Beijing-based Harvest Fund Management has proven a savvy investment – and may provide the German bank with a…
ADVERTISEMENT
