Enterprise Group Finance Companies Subject to New Rules
New rules have been promulgated by the China Banking Regulatory Commission to oversee group finance companies. The regulatory body retains its assertive role in the finance sector.
Issue: September 2004
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By Stephen M. Harner
New regulations governing group finance companies (the Administration of Enterprise Group Finance Companies Procedures, hereinafter the New Procedures) were promulgated on July 27 2004, and are effective from September 1 2004. As with the new rules governing foreign financial institutions promulgated the previous day (see the previous article on page 31), a primary reason for the new issuance was to replace the PBOC with the CBRC as the authorized regulator for targeted financial institutions.
Group finance companies have a relatively short history in China. An innovation of the mid-1990s, these institutions are licensed to operate as "in-house banks" for large enterprise groups. By charter and regulation, their activities are restricted to providing services to officially designated corporate members of enterprise groups. Some 65 group finance companies are licensed nationally. There are several group finance companies in Shanghai, including Baosteel Group Finance Company, Shanghai Automotive Industrial (Group)...
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