Head of major Chinese wealth management firm vanishes
Several prominent Chinese banks and private investors are demanding answers from a licensed Shanghai wealth management firm after its boss disappeared a week ago.
Several prominent Chinese banks and private investors are demanding answers from a licensed Shanghai wealth management firm after its boss disappeared a week ago.
Investors across China are continuing to support the founder of an alleged Ponzi scheme, even after he turned himself into police, despite standing to lose CNY70bn (£7.9bn, $10.8bn, €8.9bn).
The architects behind a Ponzi scheme that cheated 900,000 investors out of CNY50bn (£5.8bn, $7.6bn, €6.4bn) will spend their lives behind bars.
More than 2,000 private fundraising and management firms will be forced out of the Chinese market, according to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the Asset Management Industry Association of China (Amac).
Xin Qi, a Chinese asset management firm backed by property projects, has defaulted on CNY1.9bn (£203m, $291m, €261m) worth of investments, affecting thousands of retail investors across mainland China.
Chinese authorities have arrested 21 people involved in a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending scheme suspected of defrauding 900,000 investors of around CNY50bn (£5.3bn, $7.6bn, €7bn).