Top Chinese bank targets Europe

China Construction Bank, the second-ranked Chinese bank by assets after Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and one of China’s biggest banks, was planning to make the country’s biggest foreign bank acquisition to date and had set its sights on potential targets in Europe according to Wang Hongzhang, the group’s chairman in a FT interview September 2012.

ESO: Background information: EU-China Investment: A Partnership of Equals http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-eu-china-investment-a-partnership-of-equals/

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