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Citic turns down buyers seeking dollars as bridging finance

Firms seeking overseas buys wrestle with rules for preventing capital flight

Published Mon, Apr 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    Zhengzhou

    CHINESE companies seeking overseas acquisitions increasingly covet offshore dollar funds as capital controls make it hard for even state-controlled investment firms to finance deals with domestic resources.

    Citic Capital Holdings Ltd, the alternative-investment arm of China's largest state-owned conglomerate, has been rejecting requests from firms asking to use its dollars as a bridge for buying assets, chairman Zhang Yichen said in an interview on Saturday.

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