Citic turns down buyers seeking dollars as bridging finance
Firms seeking overseas buys wrestle with rules for preventing capital flight
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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