Local governments in China have been injecting into capital into struggling smaller banks, seeking to contain spillover risks from a deepening property crisis and only slowly recovering economy.
- Local govmts have sold record amounts of Special-purpose bonds this year
- Special-purpose bonds are a form of off-budget debt financing used by local governments in China
- Local governments plan to use the proceeds of the latest bond sales to purchase equity or convertible bonds from smaller banks, most of them state-owned, effectively recapitalising them
- have raised 152.3 billion yuan (US$21.05 billion) via such bonds so far in 2023
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China Mortgages
