China finance giant alarms markets, regulators with missed payments
China's banking regulator has established a task force to examine risks at wealth management group Zhongzhi Enterprise, after several of its corporate clients disclosed overdue payments by a trust unit. Zhongzhi is one of the largest players in China's $2.9tn trust industry, which manages pools of savings from wealthy households and corporate clients to provide loans and to invest in such assets as real estate, commodities, bonds and shares.