{"id":168491,"date":"2025-09-25T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168491\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:53:08","slug":"chinas-banks-face-their-japanification-moment-sp-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168491\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s banks face their \u2018Japanification moment\u2019, S&P report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s banks are edging towards their \u201cJapanification<\/a> moment\u201d, as years of yielding margins to support the economy have \u201cleft the system thin on profitability and more exposed to credit shocks\u201d, according to a new report by S&P Global Ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Japanification is characterised by a prolonged period of low growth and weak profitability, similar to the state of Japan’s economy after the country’s asset bubble burst in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

While other banking systems had weathered ultra-low rates by diversifying revenue and cutting costs, \u201cChinese lenders may have fewer such options, leaving them more reliant on lowering credit losses to stay profitable\u201d, the report warned.<\/p>\n

For China\u2019s central bank<\/a>, \u201csafeguarding growth and social stability will take priority over bank profits\u201d, S&P credit analyst Ming Tan said in the report.<\/p>\n

To stimulate growth, Beijing has cut both the one-year and five-year prime loan rates to historic lows, which further squeezed mainland banks\u2019 profitability.<\/p>\n

At the same time, banks were directed to lend to weak borrowers and offer concessions, from the pandemic<\/a>-era fee reduction policy for small businesses to lower charges levied on funds and insurance products for consumers, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s banks are edging towards their \u201cJapanification moment\u201d, as years of yielding margins to support the economy have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32732,5806,8580,4536,45,49,48,86778,86781,95,86779,32729,46,12918,15674,86777,86775,86776,86780],"class_list":["post-168491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-asia","tag-beijing","tag-bloomberg","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ccb","tag-cgs","tag-china","tag-chinese-banks","tag-deepseek","tag-economy","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-hong-kong","tag-icbc","tag-japanification","tag-kgi-asia","tag-ubs-global-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}