Banking - China (PRC)

International correspondent

Deal analysis

• Landmark Air China financing to prompt copycat deals

  15 November 2011

  The first Ex-Im Bank-supported Chinese aircraft financing to launch without a guarantee from a Chinese bank or a sovereign undertaking will prompt copycat transactions

News analysis

• Why Basel III is bad for China

  09 May 2012

  Implementing of Basel III in China would result in a vicious downward cycle. Market participants believe it should be postponed

• Why PPPs, Asian banks will drive region's projects

  27 March 2012

  Asia’s commercial banks are expected to ramp up project financings this year, as their international counterparts retreat to their home markets. But lawyers in Hong Kong have warned new entrants must be prepared for a highly-complex, relatively immature market

• Standard Chartered: how international regulations will affect Asia’s loan markets

  07 February 2012

  Regulatory change will bolster the dominance of Asia’s local banks and prompt a rise in local currency syndicated loans, Standard Chartered’s global head of loan syndications has predicted

• Bankers lobbying CBRC for secondary loans rule change

  31 January 2012

  Syndicated loan market participants in Hong Kong and China are lobbying the China Banking Regulatory Commission to change “onerous” secondary loans trading guidelines

• APLMA: CNH loans need more than Hibor

  19 January 2012

  Currency instability and a lack of transparency in domestic bank deal reports is more of an impediment to growth in the offshore RMB loan market than the lack of a reference rate for pricing, APLMA's vice chairman and China committee chair has said

• PBOC could ease small banks’ RRRs

  09 September 2011

  The People’s Bank of China is expected to cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for smaller banks before the end of this year.