Regulatory - China (PRC)

International correspondent

Deal analysis

• What ICBC’s approval means for China-US banking

  16 May 2012

  A US regulator’s decision to approve for the first time a Chinese bank’s takeover of a US bank marks a vote of confidence in China Inc and a turning point in the US-China relationship

• How asset management firms will change foreign investment to China

  01 May 2012

  Lawyers in Beijing expect a wave of foreign investment into China’s asset management industry. But international private equity firms need not apply

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

• China RMB band move likely to be first of many

  17 April 2012

  Lawyers have predicted China’s central bank decision to widen the RMB trading band will prompt a continued and gradual loosening of trading band widths

• China counsel call for primary market pricing mechanism overhaul

  15 March 2012

  Mainland China lawyers have called for a fundamental overhaul of the country’s primary market pricing mechanisms

• PBOC relaxes RMB settlement rules to offset EU trade risk

  06 March 2012

  The People’s Bank of China's decision to relax renminbi settlement rules has been heralded as a positive policy move by market participants

• Shanghai's yuan hedge fund rules expected this month

  06 March 2012

  Lawyers in Shanghai expect new guidelines enabling foreign asset management firms to set up yuan-denominated hedge funds in the city to be finalised this month

• 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

• Alder: Why CSRC-SFC policy interaction is critical

  30 January 2012

  Hong Kong’s SFC CEO reveals how he plans to work with the CSRC, and discusses his agenda priorities for 2012.

• Lawyers attack China’s RQFII scheme

  11 January 2012

  Lawyers in Beijing have branded China’s pilot Renminbi qualified foreign institutional investors (RQFII) programme as unfair and ineffective

• FDI revisions reveal PBOC’s currency fears

  21 December 2011