February 3, 2014
Currency crisis at Chinese banks ‘could trigger global meltdown’
Currency crisis at Chinese banks ‘could trigger global meltdown’
The growing problems in the Chinese banking system could spill over into a wider financial crisis, one of the most respected analysts of China’s lenders has warned. Charlene Chu, a former senior analyst at Fitch in Beijing and now the head of Asian research at Autonomous Research, said the rapid expansion of foreign-currency borrowing meant a crisis in China’s financial system was becoming a bigger risk for international banks.