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Iris Tan
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Relaxation of Debt-to-Equity Swap Won't Change Our Outlooks for Chinese Banks

Recently, China’s Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission issued new rules for asset-investment companies, or AICs, set up by banks, in order to speed up the debt-to-equity swap program. The government has been regarding DES as one of the major tools to accelerate bad-debt disposal for banks and reduce leverage ratios in the highly indebted corporate sector. However, we believe it’s unlikely to reach sufficiently meaningful scale to address China's debt problem. We retain our fair value esti...
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited Class A

INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED is a China-based company principally engaged in the provision of banking and related financial services. The Bank mainly operates three segments, including Corporate Banking segment, Personal Banking segment and Treasury segment. The Corporate Banking segment provides loan, trade financing, deposit, corporate finance, custody and other related financial products and services to enterprises, government agencies and financial institutions. The Personal Banking segment provides loan, deposit, bank card, personal finance and other related financial products and services to individual customers. Treasury segment includes money markets business, securities investment business, self and valet foreign exchange trading and derivative financial instruments business. The Company conducts its businesses within domestic and overseas markets.

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Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Iris Tan

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