China Said to Plan New Rules Facilitating Debt-to-Equity Swaps
- Central bank, economic planning agency to outline rules
- Swaps helped resolve bad loans during banking crisis in 1990s
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China is drafting rules to make it easier for lenders to convert bank loans into equity stakes of debtor companies, a move that would help authorities clean up the nation’s highest levels of soured credit in a decade.