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Fresh capital is flowing into China's state-controlled financial sector.
Beijing has widened its recapitalisation plan, the process of pushing new money directly into financial institutions to strengthen their balance sheets, to reach more institutions than the program originally covered.
The total commitment is $54 billion. Recapitalisation as a policy tool has a specific logic. A bank or insurer holds capital, meaning its own money, as a cushion against losses.
When that cushion wears thin, or when an owning government wants stronger performance from the institutions it controls, fresh money can be pushed in from outside.
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