Investors in Sichuan Trust are furious after being told that they have until March 5 “to accept a sliding scale repayment plan that would return 80% of capital to the smallest investors, while those who had invested more than 10m yuan (close to $278,000) would get back 40%”, according to a report by The Guardian, which said it was one of the first ‘shadow banks‘ to fail as China’s property market slumped into crisis in recent years and one of the more ‘trouble-prone’, having been fined 34.9m yuan in 2021 for making illicit loans and illegally transferring money to shareholders.
Some angry investors slammed the above offer as “legalised robbery”. And as strain spreads through China’s $2.9-trillion trust industry, because of the country’s economic downturn and tighter regulation of its ‘shadow banking’ sector there is a sense that China’s leaders “are not sympathetic to well-to-do” investors, the report said, noting that wealthy Chinese who used to put their money into property, the stock market or wealth management products now have nowhere to put their money as those sectors are all crashing and the popular belief that the government would “step in to resolve any financial instability” is starting to fade.
Read the full report: The Guardian.
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