China

Faster financial reforms needed to curtail shadow banking danger

Rising risks from shadow banking make this urgent.

Faster financial reforms needed to curtail shadow banking danger

Rising risks from shadow banking make this urgent.

CBRC orders banks to provide more detail on interbank deals

Unregulated channels may be used to pour funds into speculative real estate.

China secretly issues tougher anti-money laundering rules

Banks to rate their clients' risk of criminal conduct starting December 2015.

Chinese banks continue amassing US dollars

Attain forex surplus for seventh straight month.

BOC to expand operations in Cambodia

Bank of China prompted by rapid business growth in Cambodia.

StanChart names Dorris Chen as head of China financials research

She has over 10 years of experience on the sell-side.

Senior executive movements at China’s top banks

Changes follow the once-in-a-decade leadership transition at the Chinese communist party.

Shadow banking sector now 60% of China’s GDP

Fitch Ratings warns shadow banking is stoking instability in the banking sector.

China reorganizes Monetary Policy Committee

Cause is the retirement and reshuffling of committee members.

China in serious danger from shadow banking

Billionaire American investor George Soros says China has a few years to control shadow banking risks.

ICBC funds South African renewable energy projects

China’s largest bank signs US$2 billion financing agreement.

Local Chinese government debt could really be US$3.2 trillion

Amount owed banks in 2011 is double official estimates.

HSBC and BoCom sign renminbi business deal

Memorandum of understanding covers cross-border renminbi business cooperation.

ICBC to acquire stake in major Taiwan bank

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. plans to buy 20% of Bank SinoPac.