Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Bank of Beijing, and Industrial Bank all reported stellar Q3 numbers.
Bank of China's Beijing branches sold 5.5 billion yuan in wealth-management products in April, down sharply from 14 billion yuan in March, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Wen Mengjie, a 50-year-old, former director of the information technology department of the Beijing branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, was executed in Sept. 2007 for accepting bribes totaling 10.73 million yuan.
SAFE, a division of the central bank, also confirmed that Beijing would manage the transition by implementing a series of small steps.
Meanwhile, the Beijing-based Bank of China said it was halting transactions from North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank.
Beijing-based Bank of China has become increasingly active as a lender to U.S. property developers since late 2009, joining scores of well-capitalized Chinese investors who have helped fuel a commercial real-estate recovery in U.S. cities.
Europeans bought about 9% of a China Development Bank dim-sum bond and 8% of one sold by Beijing Enterprises Group, Dealogic said.
The bank suggests that Beijing dissolve the Ministry of Railways, and replace it by setting up various railway companies to run the giant network, while the policy-making functions should be transferred to a new bureau under the Ministry of Transport.
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Yet although they remain tiny compared with Chinese giants like ICBC and China Construction Bank, there is often more than a whiff of Beijing about the Indian state lenders.
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Turning to international news, experts tell Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that Beijing will verify the purpose of any bank accounts linked to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un before taking any action against Pyongyang.
The spokeswoman for the Beijing-based bank did not identify the number of accounts closed or provide further details.
On July 12, People's Bank of China boss Dai Xianglong declined to renew earlier commitments by Beijing to keep the renminbi securely pegged to the U.S. dollar through the end of the year.
The truth is that Beijing has financed high growth with extraordinary amounts of bank loans.
Gerald Ollivier, a senior infrastructure specialist at the World Bank in Beijing, pointed out that trains in China are still by far one of the safest means of transportation.
Better-run urban collectives are finding it hard to get new credit: a mere 17% of bank loans goes to the collective sector, according to Clear Thinking, a Beijing consultancy, while state companies hog the rest.
At Search Bank, a Beijing employment agency, Hai Yuen points out that, whereas the value of compensation packages for expat executives has been shrinking over the past ten years, the number of Chinese-speaking foreigners she handles has been rising.
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The bank's president, Robert Zoellick, got a taste of this at a press conference in Beijing to unveil the report.
The World Bank and other advisers have warned that to keep growth strong, Beijing needs to curb the dominance of state industry and encourage free-market competition a factor that isn't reflected in the headline numbers.
In response to overseas media reports that the Bank of China has closed the account of North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, Shi Yinhong, an international affairs expert at Beijing's Renmin University tells Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that Beijing is losing patience with Pyongyang.
"They have little incentive to over-report use of energy, including electricity, as Beijing imposes increasingly restrictive regulations on energy use per unit of GDP on local governments, " said Bank of America Merrill-Lynch economist Lu Ting in a note.
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