China

Rating agency Standard & Poor’s applauds China’s amended reserve regulations.

The government hedges against a potentially disastrous rise in non-performing loans.

Banks actively seek new technology solutions to further improve market share, customer service and operational efficiency.

Cuts in required reserve ratios are not enough to fully offset the tighter liquidity conditions, says BBVA.

China Construction Bank Corporation plans to open 2,000 more branches until 2016.

Mortgage interest rates are falling in Chinese first-tier cities with the gradual recovery of the property market.

But after deducting the non-operating gains and losses the profit only increased by 5.39% to US$77.6 million.

Chinese banks lent a record US$160 billion in March in a bid to boost China’s faltering economy.

China is putting increasing pressure on state-owned banks to reform.

Chinese banks have made "significant improvements in risk measurement and risk management", according to experts of the IMF and World Bank.

Reports say that China's non-performing loans surged to US$68b at the end of 2011 - is this the start of a looming credit crisis in China? Find out what analysts from Fitch and Standard & Poor's have to say.

China takes another step towards opening its highly regulated banking system to the outside world.

Let’s face it: those developed economies, that once were the ones spinning the globe including Japan, are currently fire-fighting their daily affairs of debt crisis, unemployment and so on. Emerging markets like South America, China, India and Indonesia are now taking the lead with unprecedented growth surge.

It all started in the 1980s when Outsourcing first come into sight in the IT industry. This was the time when companies acknowledged the benefits of having IT service partners in development of complex systems, and improved the way that a business process or service is managed. It paved the way for advent of a new genre of business approach, termed “Outsourcing” and in today’s world it has become an entity, important at that, enhancing every business system.

Over the last few months, investors have frequently expressed to me their concerns about the change of leadership in Beijing likely to take place in the autumn of this year and what that might mean for the pace of reform in China’s economy and markets.

ICBC's net profit for January to December period gained 26% to CNY208.27 billion or US$33 billion from CNY165.16 billion.