As Chinese Banking System Grows, A Warning That Debt-To-Equity Swaps Merely Shifts Risk

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Mark Melin
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As the Chinese banking system is surpassed its European counterparts at the end of 2016, according to Financial Times analysis, a Natixis report on Chinese bank asset quality notes improvement. However, the report points to a shifting of troubled loans from the banks back into the nation’s financial system. The bad debt just doesn’t disappear even with Debt-To-Equity Swaps.

And tied with a recent report by the FT this is probably not good news…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.