No such thing as ‘too big to fail’ in China


On Oct 24 2020 during the Bund Summit in Shanghai, Jack Ma delivered his keynote address where he criticised China’s regulators’ saying “outdated supervision” of financial regulation was stifling innovation and its global banking rules were like an “old people’s club.”

PEOPLE who have invested heavily on China stocks in the past two years must be wondering when did it all start to go wrong? After all, China did celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party recently on July 1.

Usually on such momentous occasions, one would expect China’s government to prop up financial markets and show the world its economic strength.

Ironically, most Chinese stock market indexes are down year to date giving up the strides made for the better half of the year as seen in table 1.So, did it all start with Jack Ma?

On Oct 24 2020 during the Bund Summit in Shanghai, Jack Ma delivered his keynote address where he criticised China’s regulators’ saying “outdated supervision” of financial regulation was stifling innovation and its global banking rules were like an “old people’s club.”

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