Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. 交通銀行股份有限公司

The fines are trivial compared to the massive amounts of overstated revenue, fake bank balances and even to the audit fees. The audits date back to 2011-2013. Samuel Wong Tin Chak has retired from Deloitte and is now an INED and Audit Committee member of Bank of Communications (3328).

Putting the Life in China Life. At least its not China Death, if he behaves himself for 2 years. He thereby enters the Webb-site Hall of Shame for jailed directors of HK-listed companies.

This is an indirect loan. The owner of the Issuer isn't disclosed. We can reveal that the Borrower is a subsidiary of Kaisa (1638), which recently issued 4-year notes at 11.95% p.a., but CSHF is only getting 7.5% from the Issuer - so how much is the Issuer taking as a spread, and why? Who owns it? What collateral, if any, is the Borrower offering? The issue arranger is a subsidiary of Bank of Communications (3328).

This follows his conviction and jailing in an ICAC case.

He appealed against his first conviction but then pleaded guilty on his retrial.

We note that BOCOM International Holdings Co Ltd itself has filed a listing aplication proof on 17-Jan-2017. Its sponsors include its subsidiary. Up to last night, the average 1-year Webb-site Total Return of BIAL's 17 sponsorships was -18.94%, or -21.15% relative to the market.

The new petitioner is a subsidiary of Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd (0086). The previous one is a subsidiary of Bank of Communications Co Ltd (3328). The controlling shareholder is or was owned by Mr Huang Xian You, who was never on the board of the listed company.

We call on SEHK and SSE to stop the big 3 holders from voting to approve each other's subscriptions, which would create a dangerous precedent. Thankfully BoCom has no general mandate, so they also need a special resolution to approve the placing on which they must all abstain. We urge independent shareholders to block it and call for a rights issue instead, and we suggest a way around the primitive NAV rule.

BoCom (3328) found a nasty wrinkle in China's taxes that resulted in an effective 60% tax rate on its final dividend, because of a tax on bonus shares. Webb-site calls on the Chinese Government to clarify its tax treatment of bonus issues so that there will be no withholding tax, because they are not a distribution of value. Further, it would be better and fairer to abolish the distortive dividend withholding tax and raise corporate tax rates instead.