Opinion: China needs a junk bond market to overcome shadow banking woes

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Opinion: China needs a junk bond market to overcome shadow banking woes

A lack of borrowing options for China’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is fuelling illegal lending, and the faster China creates a functioning high-yield bond market the quicker regulators will see shadow banking problems dissolve.

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