Loading ...Furious Investors Protest Outside China’s Insolvent Shadow Banking Giant After It Misses Payments, Warns “Liquidity Has Suddenly Dried Up”
… overnight Bloomberg reported that Zhongrong’s troubles have accelerated and the asset manager not only missed payments on dozens of products – adding to delays on at least 10 others since late July – but “has no immediate plan to make clients whole, indicating troubles at the embattled Chinese shadow bank are deeper than previously known.”
The troubles are so deep in fact, that Zhongrong – which is one of the largest players in China’s $3 trillion shadow banking industry – appears to be effectively insolvent: “the company doesn’t have an immediate plan to cover the payments since its short-term liquidity has suddenly dried up”, said Wang Qiang, board secretary of the firm partly owned by financial giant Zhongzhi Enterprise Group