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Group deposits were fun while they lasted

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Recently, China’s banks have embraced a new innovation: group deposits.
Some background: In 2019, China’s banks started giving savers higher interest rates if they signed up to make fixed-term deposits as a group.
It appears that regulators are now taking an interest.
Caixin reports that:

“Som...