Chinese Financial Executives Resign in Droves Amid Heightened Scrutiny

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The resignation list includes senior executives such as chairmen and presidents of banks, insurance companies, and securities dealers.

China faces a wave of resignations by chiefs and executives of listed companies and banks as Beijing ramps up a crackdown on the nationโ€™s financial industry.

In a little more than a month, more than a thousand senior leaders of Chinaโ€™s A-share listed companies, banks, and financial institutions resigned for personal reasons, according to Chinese state media reports.

Following Liu Jinโ€™s sudden resignation as vice chairman and president of the Bank of China at the end of August, the long resignation list includes chairmen, presidents, vice presidents, and other senior executives from various levels of banks, insurance companies, securities dealers, and state-owned enterprises.

This wave of departures coincides with Beijingโ€™s intensified purge in the financial sector. By Sept. 18, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had listed at least 67 senior finance officials being investigated, disciplined, or expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this year.

Du Wen, a former Inner Mongolia Legislative Affairs Office official, and economist Li Hengqing, both U.S.-based, told The Epoch Times that these high-level finance officials are insiders of the CCP system and that their resignations indicate their waning confidence in the economy and anticipation of heightened political risks.

Resignations donโ€™t happen easily, as they require approval from the CCP.

Du said an insider told him that the central authorities did not approve most resignations โ€œover financial stability concerns.โ€ According to him, those bankers and company chiefs would have to remain in their positions, bearing the risks of being interrogated to assist any financial investigations by the disciplinary authorities and even being politically purged.

Li said investment bankers are familiar with all kinds of bad debts and falsified account and audit reports in the financial system and that the CCP wonโ€™t want to see them fleeing with this secret.

Some brokerage firms have required investment bankers to hand in their passports and impose conditional restrictions on outbound travel, while others suspended reviews of resignations, according to Chinaโ€™s state media. One report also quoted a financial chief who said he felt that the sector has become an โ€œunfriendly environmentโ€ that is going through โ€œone of the worst cyclesโ€ and causing โ€œuncertainty about the future.โ€

Byย Lynn Xuย andย Shawn Lin

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