International banks are looking for a piece of China’s banking market. Kazuhiko Shimizu, in Shanghai, sizes up the most promising acquisition targets.

The race is on to get into the market but finding suitable acquisition targets is not easy. Getting involved with the big four state-owned banks, laden with non-performing loans, would be tricky.

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