China's central bank said on Sunday it will use various monetary tools to maintain adequate liquidity and reasonable growth in credit and social financing.

Bank of China has shortlisted eight banks for a planned offshore Basel III-compliant Additional Tier 1 capital offering of up to $6.5 billion, according a source involved in the deal.

Two Chinese partnerships, one of which involves Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd's financial services affiliate, are still hoping to get private banking licences after missing the initial batch of approvals for China's very first private lenders, according to the Securities Times.

饱受中国银行业诟病的的75%存贷比监管红线，在实施近20年后终于由银监会做出调整。缩分子、扩分母的口径调整，不单着眼于释放信贷以支持经济的当下需要，亦将推动中国迈出加速推进金融系统市场化的一大步。

China is relaxing the rules used for calculating the amount of deposits that banks can relend as loans, an attempt hailed by some economists as the latest move to stimulate growth in its cooling economy.

中国财政部长楼继伟表示，中方提出对亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）比例可以达到50%，旨表示推动亚投行的决心，但最终出资比例不一定非要达到50%。

China would welcome the participation of the United States, Japan and European countries to help set up a new multilateral bank to fund infrastructure projects in Asia, the country's finance minister was quoted as saying on Monday.

COFCO Corp, China's largest grain trader, is raising a $3.2 billion syndicated loan to back its acquistion of Noble Group's agribusiness arm and repay a shareholder loan, banking sources said on Wednesday.