BEIJING: Foreign lenders eager to get into China's massive banking sector may be stymied by measures to help protect domestic banks from overseas competition, a top regulator was quoted as saying yesterday.
HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc and a slew of smaller overseas players have been moving steadily into China with an eye to 2007, when they are to have unfettered access to US$1.5 trillion in savings under World Trade Organisation obligations.
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