China’s Citigroup approval is both a practical and a symbolic move

Citigroup is not the first foreign bank to win Beijing’s permission to run a wholly owned securities firm in mainland China. But it is among the largest, and it is American. That combination makes last week’s approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) significant in practice and in symbolism. For …

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