Overlending to unqualified home buyers ‘important lesson’ from U.S. subprime mortgage crisis -senior banking official (Adds details) BEIJING, Sept 29 (Reuters) – China has launched probes into consumer loans that are being misused for home…
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China’s Uber-Rich Prompt Haitong to Build Hong Kong Private Bank
Haitong International Securities Group Ltd., a unit of China’s second-largest brokerage, plans to add about 100 jobs in Hong Kong as it seeks to draw more of the nation’s growing ranks of multi-millionaires to its…
China’s debt mountain: The uphill march ahead
China’s sizeable debt continues to be a major bugbear for the investment community. Lack of clear and definite policy action to address this issue have triggered fears of a potential banking crisis. While such worries…
Chinese central bank drains liquidity from market
China’s central bank drained liquidity from the financial system as it suspended open market operations Friday due to a fiscal spending increase. As rising fiscal spending near the end of month has offset maturing reverse…
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Peer-to-peer Lender HuaXia Finance of China Launches Escrow Services with Ping An Bank
HuaXia Finance, an online peer-to-peer lender in China, recently began holding customer funds at Ping An Bank, a Chinese bank, under a “formal online banking depository management system” in order to comply with tightened requirements…
What China Ban? Cryptocurrency Market Cap Rebounding
China’s central bank banned ICOs on Sept. 4 and later banned all bitcoin exchanges from operating in the country. China’s ban is likely temporary. The U.S. and Japan are quickly moving to create rules that…
PH, China thresh out $200-m bPanda bonds
Dominguez said in a statement the government was in talks with the Chinese central bank (People’s Bank of China) and the Bank of China. “The Panda bond market is regulated by China’s central bank, PBOC.…
China Life’s Revenues Grow on Premiums, Higher Costs Hurt
The recent interest rate hikes have aided China Life along with other companies like The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc HIG, CNO Financial Group, Inc CNO, Renaissance Holdings, Inc RNR by boosting their investment results.…
Beijing-backed bank to invest in IFC fund
BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has announced it will invest 150 million U.S. dollars in the International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Emerging Asia Fund to address the infrastructure gap in…
Chinese ship finance to the fore
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Belt and Road: China’s new green finance laboratory
Considering its size, it is easy to forget China’s green bond market is still in its infancy. It took off only in 2016 — when, from almost nothing, issuance of green bonds rocketed to $36bn,…
UK the riskiest market after China, say finance and tech firms
Political and economic uncertainty emanating from the Brexit vote have contributed to make the UK the second riskiest market in which to do business – after only China – according to a new survey of…
China Financial Services Holdings Ltd (0605) Dips -2.99% on Sep 29
Shares of China Financial Services Holdings Ltd (HKG:0605) last traded at 0.65, representing a move of -2.99%, or -0.02 per share, on volume of 446,000 shares. After opening the trading day at 0.66, shares of…