Lenders were found to be favouring borrowers with deposits at their banks, linking loans to the sale of other products, and illegally charging financing fees.
June 28, 2019China's National Audit Office has reportedly found that five financial institutions concealed a combined $189mn in bad loans by misclassifying them as performing.
December 14, 2018ICBC, ABC and CITIC illegally extended loans to unqualified companies or industries, inflated the size of their deposits, engaged in illegal shadow-banking actives, and had shortcomings in their credit risk management.
June 25, 2018