Bank of China (BOC) is close to issuing a $7 billion share offering in Hong Kong to bolster balance sheets strained by loan growth.
Bank of China has already announced plans to issue $5.9bn in convertible bonds on the mainland.
The share issue is likely to be limited to a Hong Kong offering easily [...]
The chairman of Bank of China said the lender wants to grow aggressively overseas but doesn’t plan on making any acquisitions.
Xiao Gang told reporters Thursday that BoC’s “overseas expansion plans will rely on [its] own strengths,” noting that international business has already increased after foreign banks were crippled by the global financial crisis.
He didn’t name [...]
The American branch of luxury company Gucci has asked a US judge to hold Bank of China (BoC) in contempt for failing to comply with a court order to turn over documents related to a counterfeiting case.
In papers filed Tuesday, Gucci, Chloe SAS and Alfred Dunhill, claimed that BoC had refused to surrender records of [...]
Two former Bank of China (BoC) managers and their wives received jail sentences Wednesday for a long-running scheme to steal US$485 million from the bank and launder it through Las Vegas casinos and US bank accounts.
US District BoC managers Xu Chaofan, and Xu Guojun were both sentenced to over 20 years in prison. Their wives, [...]
Bank of China said its first quarter net profit fell 14% year-on-year to US$2.7 billion due to declines in interest and fee-based income.
The lender, the smallest of the mainland’s state-run banks, saw net interest income fall by 9.8% on a yearly basis to US$5.4 billion. Outstanding loans grew 16% during the first quarter, bringing the [...]
Bank of China (BoC) has abandoned efforts to purchase a 20% stake in French private bank Financière Edmond de Rothschild after the deal failed to win regulatory approval before a deadline expired.
The March 31 deadline already represented a three-month extension on the original cutoff point, but there was still no word from the China Banking [...]
Bank of China (BoC) said its fourth quarter net profit dropped 59% year-on-year to US$646.8 million as the global economic crisis hit the lender’s overseas investments.
The bank’s full-year income rose by 14% to US$9.4 billion. The fourth quarter decline – following a 32% gain in the first nine months of the year – indicates that [...]
China Minsheng Bank, the country’s first private sector lender, is in discussions with European financial firms over the sale of a minority stake.
Minsheng is effectively looking for a replacement for Temasek, the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, which sold off the remainder of its holding in the second quarter of 2008. Apparently Temasek, which already has [...]
The investment arm of the Singapore government, Temasek, will not sell its shares in Bank of China (BOC) through at least the first half of the year.
In an interview given with the Shanghai Securities News on Saturday, BOC chairman Xiao Gang said the Chinese lender had received assurances that Temasek would not cut any of [...]
China Investment Corp (CIC), the country’s sovereign wealth fund, will continue to buy shares in the three major state-owned banks to help them withstand selling pressure. Wang Jianxi, CIC’s executive vice president and chief risk officer, committed to supporting the banks in comments made on the sidelines of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) [...]
