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Bank capital raising goes into full gear

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China’s banks are in serious need of new capital.

That’s partly because of a need to comply with new global regulatory requirements called Basel III. But it’s also because banks’ off-balance-sheet business is about to come back onto the books; so they will have to hold more capital against those...