China shadow lending: In from the dark
China’s shadow lenders are an often-misunderstood part of the private debt sector. Investors say these unregulated institutions are not necessarily a threat, but they are hard to account for
After a spate of suicides among entrepreneurs in 2012 in the southeastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, the central government discovered an epidemic of questionable lending practices. Before the global financial...
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