.Temasek's Fullerton Financial, BOC set up community bank to serve China's microenterprises
TEMASEK's wholly-owned subsidiary Fullerton Financial Holdings and Bank of China on Tuesday jointly established the Bank of China-Fullerton Community Bank Co in Xiong'An New District in China's Hebei province.
BOC-Fullerton is among the first batch of investment and management community banks in China to be set up, FFH said in a statement. FFH and BOC run BOC Fullerton Community Bank , said to be China’s largest community bank network, comprising 127 community banks, with 173 sub-branches and 278 rural financing service outlets as at June 2020.
FFH and BOC will inject their existing equity interest in the community banks into BOC-Fullerton, FFH said. FFH has jointly invested in the building of community banks in China with BOC, with the first community bank launched in 2011. The partnership leverages BOC's branding and capital resources, and FFH's proven small and medium enterprise and micro-financing business models.
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