Citic stretches its ambitions beyond China

CLSA stake and landmark deals show China could have an international investment banking champion.

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China’s leading securities companies enjoy a natural dominance of the tightly controlled domestic capital markets, with the established top players, Citic Securities and CICC, tested on home soil much more by the rising crop of competitors linked to domestic banks than they are by foreign firms.

Their almost guaranteed presence on every cross-border investment or fundraising deal by a Chinese company means China’s biggest securities companies place highly in the year-end league tables for Asia excluding Japan.

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