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Onshore perps still out of reach for small Chinese banks

Bank of China’s Rmb40bn ($5.9bn) perpetual bond has opened up a possible path for other banks with similar funding needs, but smaller banks may still find it hard to attract investors, said analysts and bankers this week. Widening the scope of perpetual bonds so that insurance companies can purchase them will be key to solving the problem.

  • By Rebecca Feng
  • 29 Jan 2019
On the evening of January 24, before Bank of China (BOC) opened books for the first perpetual bond issued by a Chinese bank onshore, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) introduced juicy policy support, as if cheering BOC on ...

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