Minsheng gets greenlight to buy into UCBH
Updated: 2008-03-02 09:41
China Minsheng Banking Corp announced on Saturday that the China Banking Regulatory Commission had approved its proposal to buy 4.9 percent of the US-based UCBH Holdings.
The deal involved $95 million and the mid-sized bank had completed the remittance approval procedure in the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, it said in a statement.
China Minsheng announced in October last year that by June next year it would take up to a 20-percent stake in UCBH, the holding company of the US-based United Commercial Bank, which primarily serves Chinese communities and American companies doing business in China.
The deal marks the first strategic investment in a banking institution in the United States by a Chinese mainland bank, said a statement from UCBH Holdings.
The purchase is expected to help China Minsheng improve its asset management and develop a full range of financial services.
Shares of China Minsheng closed 1.41 percent higher at 13.71 yuan ($1.93) on Friday in Shanghai.
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