December 28, 2017 Shanghai/Beijing/Hong Kong—In March 2013, retired chemical company employee Anne Xing, her older sister and their husbands visited a China Everbright Bank branch on the outskirts of Shanghai. A private wealth manager at…
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China’s new Silk Road hits political, financial hurdles
BEIJING — China’s plan for a modern Silk Road of railways, ports and other facilities linking Asia with Europe hit a $14 billion pothole in Pakistan. Pakistan’s relations with Beijing are so close that officials…
China Seen Dominating Clean Energy Investment
While China is not necessarily intending to fill the “climate leadership void”, it will be comfortable providing technology leadership and financial capacity, Tim Buckley, the report’s co-author, said. Chinese solar manufacturers accounted for about ……
Beijing’s Grip on Internet Finance Is Tightening
The days of laissez-faire are numbered for financial technology companies in China. For more than a decade, entrepreneurs like Alibaba and Tencent have had freedom to innovate and run vast networks of new internet-enabled business…
Beijing’s fiscal revenue increased by 6.8 pct in 2017
according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Finance. Last year Beijing’s fiscal revenue was 1.64 times of that of 2012 and accounted for an average annual growth of 10.4 percent. The municipal government enhanced the…
Things are looking up for China’s financial firms, UBS says
Despite fears about China’s financial stability, UBS is positive on Chinese financials this year, its head of China strategy explained Tuesday. “There’s less worry about financial stability in China because a lot of other sectors…
Growth in China’s financial technology has only just begun, CEO says
Multiple Chinese financial technology firms, including Qudian, PPDai, Hexindai and Jianpu, went public in the U.S. last year Despite the competition in the space, Jianpu CEO David Ye said growth in the market had only…
BRIEF-Oceanwide Holdings unit to transfer rights shares of China Oceanwide International Financial for about HK$179.8 mln
* Says its overseas wholly owned unit plans to transfer nil-paid 11.99 billion rights shares of China Oceanwide International Financial Ltd for about HK$179.8 million * Says the unit will cut stake in China Oceanwide…
The Missing ‘Development’ in China’s Global Development Finance
Analysis of China’s foreign “aid” misses the fact that much of it is in the form of commercial loans and little of it seems to have helped the recipient countries develop. There is an emerging…
China tightens rules on commercial lender shareholders
The rules are aimed at tackling “disorder” in the banking sector, including the abuse of rights by major shareholders and the prevalence of “invisible shareholders”. AP China’s banking regulator has introduced new measures to increase…
China looks to tighten banks’ NCD debt issuance: sources
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank has moved to restrict the issuance of negotiable certificates of deposit (NCDs) this year, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Friday, as the government intensifies its…
China Fails to Woo U.S. With Financial Sector Opening
Now that the dust has settled, one thing is clear: President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia in November served as a milestone in the increasingly rapid transfer of power from the U.S. to China. President…
Legislature’s finance committee ‘castrating itself’ with proposed rule change mechanism, says lawmaker
Pro-Beijing lawmaker Michael Tien suggested that motions to change … Disallowing discussions at the finance committee of items already passed by the Public Works Subcommittee and the Establishment Subcommittee unless lawmakers allow them. ( read…
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