Chinese lenders could undergo a liquidity crunch as the central bank incorporates wealth management products as part of its regular credit assessment, CICC warns.
High scores in the banking regulator’s benchmarking exercise are vital if an IHB is to win approval to expand its range of services. CT spoke to an SOE treasurer on how the process works.
China’s X-border transaction curbs are hindering companies that want to pay off debt offshore and increasing their appetite for X-border guarantee financing. But firms must play nice and not step across the line.
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Shengjie Tan, Continental Automotive’s Asia treasury head, told CT how he managed to leverage the company’s banking relationships to set up a flexible liquidity framework that could minimise the impact of regulatory ...
China has given some conditional lifting to its suspension of net capital outflows from the cross-border renminbi cash pools in the country. But the criteria for firms eligible for the relaxation remain unclear.
To help China-based treasurers better manage group liquidity, CT provides a full guide to different cash pool structures available in the country, along with their merits and pitfalls.
China’s tax reforms may not reduce tax burdens on popular cash pools, and might even increase costs. The traditional zero-balance cash pool structure specifically suffers.