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CBIRC approves DBS Bank’s purchase of stake in Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank

In the early 2000s, as China cracked open the door to its financial services sector, a few foreign banks took the plunge and bought big stakes in Chinese city and rural commercial banks. But those forays didn’t work out well as the foreign banks struggled to influence the local management and were frustrated by cultural differences …

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