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Regulators relax oversight of banks’ property-related lending

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Beijing is quietly relaxing oversight of the regulatory architecture it built to deflate the housing bubble. Quick background: In January 2021, the central bank (PBoC) and former banking regulator (CBIRC) set up a system for managing “property-loan concentration,” sorting banks into five tiers and l...



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