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  • ICBC and CCB lead China’s 6 biggest banks in US$61 billion dividend payout
  • Default in our stars: China’s banks use satellites to track assets with sky-high scrutiny
  • China’s PBOC raises leverage ratios for foreign lenders to support outbound investment

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scmp.com /1 month ago

ICBC and CCB lead China’s 6 biggest banks in US$61 billion dividend payout

China’s six largest state-owned banks are set to distribute more than 420 billion yuan (US$61 billion) in dividends for 2025, extending record-high payouts and strengthening their...

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scmp.com /1 month ago

Default in our stars: China’s banks use satellites to track assets with sky-high scrutiny

With bad loans and repayment collateral in focus, Chinese banks are increasingly using satellites to evaluate their clients’ terrestrial assets, mounting a hi-tech offensive to saf...

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scmp.com /1 month ago

China’s PBOC raises leverage ratios for foreign lenders to support outbound investment

Beijing has raised the limit on banks’ overseas lending – a move that analysts say will support Chinese firms in outbound investment expansions while helping to stabilise the yuan....

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chinabankingnews.com /1 month ago

China's fiscal spending "will only increase" in future...

The overseas expansion of Chinese companies is driving renminbi internationalisation; asset quality of China's commercial banks remains under pressure due to property.

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investing.com /3 weeks ago

China asks banks to pause new loans to US-sanctioned refiners, Bloomberg News reports

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visualcapitalist.com /1 month ago

Ranked: The World’s 50 Largest Banks by Assets

Where is global banking power concentrated? This chart ranks the world’s 50 largest banks by assets, revealing which countries dominate the global banking system.

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taipeitimes.com /1 month ago

Financial institutions’ exposure to China falls 13.44%

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scmp.com /1 month ago

How China’s state insurer is turning Brazil’s credit crisis into an export advantage

With one of the world’s highest benchmark interest rates among major economies, Brazilian importers who buy from China are turning to a state-owned Chinese credit insurer to sustai...

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scmp.com /4 weeks ago

From banking to AI, these are the key international economic bodies based in China

The recent launch of the World Data Organization in Beijing added another node to a growing network of bodies headquartered in China with international participation and cross-bord...

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asia.nikkei.com /1 month ago

Japan's big banks jostle to secure dollars with overseas corporate payments

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investing.com /2 weeks ago

Chinese officials meet Citigroup, Goldman chiefs in Beijing

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scmp.com /1 month ago

More Chinese banks claw back bonuses, cut salaries despite mixed profit recovery

Several major Chinese banks have clawed back staff bonuses or cut salaries amid a sluggish economic recovery and Beijing’s ongoing scrutiny of the financial sector. In their annual...

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canadianmortgagetrends.com /1 month ago

Canada pitches bank expansion in China, seeking to grow exports

Canada pitched expanding its financial services presence in the Chinese market as the northern nation aims to increase exports to its second-largest trading partner in a push to di...

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investinglive.com /3 weeks ago

China loan curbs, yuan surge and holiday spending in focus as Beijing juggles pressures

China's financial regulator has quietly told major banks to suspend new loans to five U.S.-sanctioned Iranian oil refiners, while the yuan surged to its strongest PBOC fixing since...

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investinglive.com /1 month ago

China new bank loans slow further in the first quarter this year

New yuan loans for the month of March came in at ¥2.99 trillion, missing on estimates of ¥3.4 trillion. That brings the total new bank lending in Q1 2026 to roughly ¥8.6 trillion....

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taipeitimes.com /1 week ago

Banks’ overseas units post record-high Q1 net profits

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ft.com /1 week ago

Morgan Stanley issues China-only iPhones to its Hong Kong bankers

US bank’s move reflects rising concern over data security for staff travelling to mainland China

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crypto.news /1 month ago

China urges banks to adopt blockchain for tax data sharing and credit access

China’s regulators are pushing for banks to upgrade the “bank-tax interaction” model in a bid to expand financing for small businesses. According to a policy notice issued by the S...

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

‘You Can’t Withdraw Your Own Money’: China’s Banking Controls Fuel Outrage

As thousands of bank branches close across China, customers are finding it increasingly harder to access their own money, raising deeper concerns about financial control, trust, an...

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thefinanser.com /1 month ago

The problem with HSBC

I remember making a prediction twenty-five years ago that all of the biggest banks in the world would be Chinese. Unfortunately, I made this prediction at an American banking confe...

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scmp.com /3 weeks ago

Wall Street giants lead China-profit surge despite market polarisation, uneven recovery

Overseas-invested securities firms collectively saw income from their China businesses skyrocket in 2025, as combined net profits climbed more than fourfold from a year earlier to...

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scmp.com /3 days ago

Mainland Chinese react as Hong Kong tightens access to offshore investment accounts

As news spread on Wednesday that Hong Kong banks were tightening scrutiny on mainland Chinese clients opening savings and investment accounts, Zhe Ye – an auctioneer based in the s...

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scmp.com /1 month ago

Citic tops Asia-Pacific banking fees as mainland China and Hong Kong IPOs surge

Investment banking fees across Asia-Pacific excluding Japan reached US$5.3 billion in the first quarter of 2026, with China’s Citic Securities ranking as the region’s top earner. T...

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

China Credit Card Market Contracts as Banks Cut Products, Spending Falls, and Defaults Rise

China’s banks issued fewer credit cards in 2025 than in previous years, and newly released data points to a broad pullback across the sector. Total credit card circulation fell to...

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