Logo 11 Jan 2018

Banking regulator wants to curb lending to unfavored sectors

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To tame the property market, the government has ordered that credit to developers be tightened. But the banking regulator (CBRC) found violations to the directives (Caixin):

“[In 2017 inspections] the CBRC…determined that banks had circumvented regulation[s] to invest in forbidden or restricted sec...