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...Sundberg says that with the IRS intensifying its hunt for alleged tax evaders, Swiss banks, fearful of potential legal problems, are closing the accounts of resident Americans and refusing to open new ones. Both UBS and Switzerland's second largest bank, Credit Suisse, have told Americans to move their money into specially created units registered in the U.S., or lose their accounts. Many smaller Swiss banks are simply turning away Americans. (See pictures of the top 10 scared traders...
...more remarkable aspects of Chinese government efforts to fend off the global economic downturn has been a surge in lending. To keep struggling enterprises afloat, Beijing urged Chinese banks to open the credit floodgates - and bankers have done so. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, estimates that $224 billion in new loans were made in June alone, bringing the total for the first half of the year to $1.08 trillion - 50% more than the amount of loans Chinese banks issued in all of 2008. (Read "China's Banks Become the Government's Foot Soldiers...
...Wang Baoguo, CEO of the Hangzhou Dafeng Furniture Co., securing two loans via Alibaba has meant gaining the cash to buy raw materials at lower cost. The seven-year-old company employs 150 people and manufactures wooden home furnishings. But despite its experience, Hangzhou Dafeng has traditionally avoided pursuing credit through traditional channels. "A small start-up company like ours doesn't remotely qualify for loans under the banks' criteria, so I didn't even bother to try," says Wang. Through the Alibaba program, the company was approved for a $100,000 loan. After repaying that, it applied...
...this credit flood has been directed mainly at large, state-owned companies. It has not been trickling down to the country's private small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which continue to have difficulties securing loans, even though the global credit crisis has abated. The People's Daily newspaper reported in late June that SMEs have received less than 5% of the total volume of loans. That's not just a problem for private business owners. Because their firms do a better job of creating employment than state-owned enterprises, the credit crunch creates headaches for policymakers trying to limit...
...chief reason that small, private enterprises have such difficulty is that China does not have a well-established system of credit ratings. "Banks are geared to lending to very big companies that are very easy to understand," says Spelich. "Lending to a company that has maybe five employees is not an intuitive thing." Banks consider small businesses poor loan candidates because they have shorter life cycles, often keep spotty financial records and lack significant property or other forms of collateral, says Du, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences deputy director. Lending to a state-owned enterprise comes with at least...