Greater market access to China’s banking industry on the road ahead?
Feb. 8 – U.S.-based financial services corporation Citigroup announced on Monday that it has obtained government approval to issue its own credit cards in China. It is hoped that Beijing’s recent decision indicates that the country will be more willing to open up its banking industry to foreign financial institutions in the near future.
Citigroup – operating 13 corporate bank branches and 46 consumer outlets in the world’s most populous nation – is the first Western bank authorized to issue credit cards in Mainland China. Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia, the only other non-mainland credit card issuer in the country, was allowed to tap into the China market back in 2008. Continue reading




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