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China’s total debt load has climbed to more than two and a half times the size of its economy, underscoring the difficult challenge facing Beijing as it seeks to spur growth without sowing the seeds of a financial crisis, the Financial Times reported ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 07/21/2014 - 18:48 - 0 comments

China's major banks have halted an experimental program, sanctioned by the country's central bank, that helped citizens transfer large sums overseas despite government capital controls, according to people with knowledge of the matter, The Wa ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 07/14/2014 - 19:54 - 0 comments

Bank of China Ltd. denied a report by the state broadcaster alleging it broke the nation’s foreign-exchange rules by providing services that help clients move “dirty money” abroad, Bloomberg News reported. Reports by China Central Television and other me ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 07/09/2014 - 22:32 - 0 comments

China should let more ailing firms go bankrupt to help improve economic mechanisms rather than allow them to get government-led bailouts, a deputy central bank governor said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The risk of corporate failures is rising as econom ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 07/09/2014 - 00:18 - 0 comments

Chinese regulators increased banks’ capacity to lend money and bolster the slowing economy by changing the way loan-to-deposit ratios are devised, Bloomberg News reported. Banks from today can include in the calculation negotiable certificates of deposit ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 06/30/2014 - 22:04 - 0 comments

In the latest sign of the mounting risks to China’s debt market, a bank for the first time ever reportedly disclosed the default on a loan by a local government financing vehicle, Fox Business News reported. Over the weekend, the 21st Century Business He ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 06/30/2014 - 22:06 - 0 comments

Distressed debt funds are raising cash to seek greater opportunities in China, where Standard & Poor’s says corporate borrowing topped the U.S. last year, Bloomberg News reported. Planned commitments to funds investing in Chinese and other Asian trou ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 06/27/2014 - 00:35 - 0 comments

China’s chief auditor discovered 94.4 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) of loans backed by falsified gold transactions, adding to signs of possible fraud in commodities financing deals, Bloomberg News reported. Twenty-five bullion processors in China, the big ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 06/27/2014 - 00:36 - 0 comments

fell 0.2 per cent in May from April, data showed last week, the country’s first monthly decline in two ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 06/23/2014 - 23:20 - 0 comments

Major Chinese banks want to manage their own bad debts, attracted by the outsize profits being earned by recovery firms, in a sign of confidence that investments in internal risk assessment teams are set to pay off, Reuters reported. If they are right, i ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 06/22/2014 - 22:52 - 0 comments