China's Large Banks Wary on Li Keqiang's Plan for Bad Loans
- Higher risk weights for equity stakes would weaken banks
- Premier Li plans to use swaps to cut leverage, defuse risks
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China’s proposal to deal with a potential bad-loan crisis by having banks convert their soured debt into equity is meeting with unexpected resistance from some of the biggest potential beneficiaries of the plan -- the country’s large banks.