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Private Lending in China: Practice, Law, and Regulation of Shadow Banking and Alternative Finance

Private Lending in China: Practice, Law, and Regulation of Shadow Banking and Alternative Finance

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

Investing & FinancePersonal FinanceGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1138331651
ISBN13: 9781138331655
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 20 2018
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores China's private lending market from historical, economic, legal, and regulatory perspectives. Private lending refers to moneylending agreements between business borrowers and their debt investors without the involvement of banks. In China, it remains difficult for private entrepreneurs to obtain sufficient loans from state-owned banks. Thus, private lending has been a vital alternative financing channel for over 80 million businesses which are reliant on private funds as their major source of operating capital. The market volume of private financing stands at 5 trillion yuan ($783bn), making it one of the largest shadow banking systems in the world. Despite the wide popularity and systemic importance of private lending activities, they have remained outside of the official regulatory framework, leading to extra financial risks. In 2011, China's private lending sector encountered a severe financial crisis, as thousands of business borrowers failed to repay debts and fell into bankruptcy. Lots of bosses who found it impossible to liquidate debts ran away to hide from creditors. The financial turmoil has caused substantial monetary losses for investors across the country, which triggered social unrest and undermined the financial stability.

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