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Foreign divestment from China banks to have limited impact: state media
AFP - 2 hours 50 minutes ago
BEIJING (AFP) - - Moves by foreign investors to cut their shares in Chinese banks will have a limited impact and will not affect the sector's stability, state media said Monday, downplaying concerns over recent sell-offs.
Xinhua news agency issued the commentary after a series of reports about overseas dealers divesting themselves of stakes in Chinese lenders in order to raise much-needed cash amid the global financial crisis.
"The impact is limited and controllable and will not affect the capital adequacy ratio ... of China's state-controlled financial institutions or the stability of the overall financial sector," it said.
The liquidity in China's banking system is "ample", it added. Chinese households have placed about 20 trillion yuan (three trillion dollars) in the banks, earlier reports showed.
Several foreign strategic investors trimmed shares in some Chinese banks, or said they might do so, sparking fears of more to come as overseas banks rushed to beef up their balance sheets.
China Construction Bank last week confirmed that major shareholder Bank of America reduced its stake, with reports saying the firm sold 2.8 billion dollars' worth of shares in the Chinese lender.
UBS AG, a shareholder of Bank of China, announced last month that it had sold its entire 1.33 percent stake in the Chinese bank.
Royal Bank of Scotland has suggested it may sell a 4.3-percent stake in Bank of China, according to media reports.
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