Cathay Financial, Taiwan's top financial holding firm, said on Wednesday it is aiming to tap Chinese mainland's asset management market this year.
The banking regulator's loan-to-deposit ratio requirement is increasingly choking the development of the country's small and medium-sized lenders, who generally have more difficulty attracting deposits than their bigger counterparts.
The yuan pulled back slightly against the dollar on Tuesday from a slew of recent record highs, as the People's Bank of China fixed a marginally weaker mid-point, signaling the central bank may stick to gradualism in reforming the country's currency regime.
Stocks on the Chinese mainland rose, driving the benchmark index to its biggest two-day increase in four weeks on Tuesday.
China has given the green-light for the private placement of bonds, another step towards expanding the role of direct financing in the economy, China's interbank association has announced.
China need not worry about the effect of the weakening dollar on its foreign exchange reserves and should not quicken the pace of yuan appreciation because of "temporary" factors, a former deputy foreign exchange regulator said on Tuesday.
The value of Chinese currency renminbi (RMB), or the yuan, continued to weaken Wednesday following Tuesday's slide from the record high of 6.4990 per US dollar on April 29.
The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) said on Tuesday that new rules setting tougher criteria for lenders' capital adequacy, provisions, leverage, and liquidity conditions will take effect at the beginning of 2012.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country's largest asset lender, said on Tuesday that its international settlement volume rose 44 percent year on year to reach $1.06 trillion last year.
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China remained the largest holder of US securities with a total of $1.611 trillion as of the end of June, the US Treasury department said on Friday.
The yuan strengthened beyond 6.5 a dollar for the first time since 1993..