China allows Baoshang Bank to go bankrupt in final cleanup

Original shareholders' and unprotected creditors' rights to be liquidated

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Baoshang Bank had 556 billion yuan in assets and 290 billion yuan in bad loans by the end of 2017. © Reuters

PENG QINQIN and HAN WEI, Caixin

Troubled Chinese regional lender Baoshang Bank will file for bankruptcy and liquidate its remaining assets in a final step to clean up the mess that triggered a high-profile asset seizure by the state, the central bank said Thursday.

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