Singapore's DBS closer to taking strategic stake in Chinese lender

Move is first foreign investment in small or midsize bank since 2010

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DBS is betting heavily on growth in China's Greater Bay Area, which generated more than 11% of China's GDP in 2018. © Reuters

LIAO ZHAOLONG, Caixin

China's securities regulator has given the go-ahead to Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank's (SZRCB) private placement, in which Singapore's biggest bank will take a major stake, marking the first foreign strategic investment in a small or midsize Chinese bank through a private placement in more than a decade.

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