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CHINA: China probes small bank shareholdings as risk worries persist (RTRS)

- China is sharpening its scrutiny of small banks' shareholders amid fears that

loans from the lenders to big investors could prove a weak point in the

country's financial system, jolted by the state's weekend rescue of one lender

and recent takeover of another.

- While nominally small, China's numerous small city commercial banks risk

having outsized significance because of their close ties to the rest of the

banking system as well as with bigger shareholders, many of whom are giant

companies.

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