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China’s city banks picking up momentum

While state-owned banks are making the headlines in the country ranking, the city banks are leading the way in performance. Kimberley Long reports.
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China’s city banks picking up momentum

China’s city banks have scored highly using The Banker’s best-performing bank methodology, demonstrating areas of strength despite the country’s slowing economic growth.

Yet the Chinese banking is experiencing a period of divisions, as the country’s biggest banks continue to see their Tier 1 capital soar, while smaller institutions battle with the impact of lockdowns and contagion fears from the troubled real estate sector.

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Kimberley Long is the Asia editor at The Banker. She joined from Euromoney, where she spent four years as transaction services editor. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, and an MA in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield. Between degrees she spent a year teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Programme.
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