China

Banks are now more sensitive to potential counterparty failure.

True NPL ratio could be as high as 30%.

It's time to clean up the banking sector.

Risks include banks' losses from their own investments.

There are two scenarios to help frame the potential scale of risk and policy solutions.

Find out which types of banks are most vulnerable.

Slower economic conditions around the region are certainly impacting our banks and financial services institutions, but that doesn’t mean hiring & recruitment has come to a complete halt. Organisations still need talent to keep operations running and lead them into new growth areas. This requires talent in different shapes and sizes than previously. Shifting sands just means a shift in focus is required to different functions, roles, or skills to meet current market conditions.

This is following several high-profile defaults in late 2015 and early 2016.

The bank is valued at $50 billion.

The units will be transferred to BOCHK.

Exposure to these asset classes more than quadrupled since 2012.

It would compete with Goldman and UBS.

It's targeting Central and Eastern European governments.

Retail investors are at the losing end.

This is its first-ever international RMB bond issued outside China.

China Merchants and Bank of China are first in line.