According to the banks' third quarter financial reports, the core capital adequacy rates of CMB, SDB, and PDB respectively stood at 6.61 per cent, 6.76 per cent, and 5.2 per cent, less than the 7 per cent minimum requirement.
In late October, the China Banking Regulatory Commission issued a notice on improving the capital requirement system of commercial banks which set their new minimum core capital adequacy rates to 7 per cent and capital adequacies to 10 per cent.
Some of the banks had begun arranging fund raising by issuing new shares. CMB will offer A-shares and H-shares to raise 18 billion to 22 billion yuan and SDB will issue 6.7 to 10.6 billion yuan in shares to Ping An Insurance Company.
Market analysts believe that if these stricter fund arrangements are completed as planned, the banks will be able to meet the 7 per cent requirement.
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