China's Postal Bank sells stake for 45b yuan
Sale ahead of a planned IPO draws 10 firms including UBS Group, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Temasek Holdings
Shanghai
POSTAL Savings Bank of China Co, which has the most branches of any Chinese lender, raised 45 billion yuan (S$9.8 billion) selling about 17 per cent of itself in what it called the biggest private fundraising ever undertaken in the nation's financial industry.
The stake sale ahead of a planned initial public offering by the Chinese lender lured 10 firms including UBS Group AG, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Temasek Holdings, Postal Savings Bank said in a statement on Wednesday. Canada Pension invested 3.2 billion yuan, it said in a separate statement.
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