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China’s trust industry is in flux

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For the uninitiated, trusts are financial institutions that don’t take deposits, but otherwise make loans and investments like banks do.
Data released on Monday showed that Chinese trusts’ assets-under-management stand at RMB 23 trillion as of the end of June. Most strikingly, that’s an in...