Capital Markets

CIRC lifts the restrictions on the investment percentages of insurance capital.

Shareholdings of QFIIs and RQFIIs increased to 30%.

CSRC clamps down on listed companies' failures to uphold promises.

CIRC relaxes investment percentage restrictions on investments of insurance capital.

Banks required to disclose more information on affiliated transactions.

Regulators were right to ease the burdens for an IPO, but they failed to close loopholes for exploiting share prices and transfers. Though the new Measures enhance supervision, a paradox remains: more control is needed before China's stock market can be liberalised

China and US regulators are working on a deal, but if China wants regulatory equivalency it must first prove its intent to prosecute fraud, says accounting professor Paul Gillis

Following the SEC's suspension of the Big Four's Chinese affiliates, Chinese companies have few options, and looking to Hong Kong for help is not one of them. The answer lies in diplomacy

Following the SEC's suspension of the Big Four's Chinese affiliates, Chinese companies have few options, and looking to Hong Kong for help is not one of them. The answer lies in diplomacy