Lending rules may benefit private firms in China
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China&#39;s central bank has said that a decision to end a cap on lending rates is part of a plan to bring its banks more in line with international standards and give them greater freedom to lend.
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BEIJING : China has decided to raise its benchmark one-year lending rate to 5.58 percent from 5.31 percent with effect Friday, the first such move in nearly a decade, the central bank said on its website.
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Chinese lenders have made good progress   in improving risk management and corporate governance, but   completing bank reform will still take years, chief banking   regulator Liu Mingkang said on Monday.
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China said Thursday it would bar bank loans to companies that violate environmental rules, an apparent effort to target firms that find it cheaper to pay fines or bribes than help reduce the country's worsening pollution.
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The People&#39;s Bank of China, or China&#39;s central bank, announced Thursday to raise both lending and deposit interest rates 0.27 percentage point higher as from Oct. 29.
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China on Friday eased the rules  governing foreign brokerage firms' joint ventures, modestly  expanding their business scope and lowering the requirements  for foreign firms entering the sector.
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China on Monday announced a $20 billion capital injection into China Development Bank, one of the country's three policy lenders, as part of a long-planned transformation of the state-owned company into a commercial bank.
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China has signaled a green light for the direct investment of insurance capital in the stock market. On October 24, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) and China Securities Regulatory Commission
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China is expected to take more steps to slow its galloping economy, a key engine of global growth, after hiking borrowing costs in a bid to stop the boom giving way to a bust.
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China has raised its core interest rates for the first time in nine years, as the country&#39;s central bank moves to rein in the booming economy.
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China on Thursday announced it would hike interest rates for most deposits and loans by 0.27 percentage points, the first rise in nine years.
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Hong Kong is celebrating better than expected economic figures while China has started its first financial bailout of a private company.
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China unveils a new law to increase protection of private property rights - the first to cover individual assets.
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Chinaâs move to hike interest rate has come as a surprise. The central bank raised the benchmark rate on one-year yuan loans to 5.58 per cent from 5.31 per cent and the rate on one-year deposits to 2.25 per cent from 1.98 per cent.
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Eager for stable friends, China is making big loans for big projects, competing with the World Bank at its own game.
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China now leads the world in the number of publicly traded companies with market values of more than $200 billion, but this is not necessarily good news for investors.
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China's economy is set to grow at a faster-than-expected rate of 10.4% this year, the Asian Development Bank says.