IPO of China’s largest commercial bank looks set to be a success

ICBC listing might set a new record but investors should tread with caution.

Bingeing on China’s banking IPOs

The IPO of China’s largest commercial bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), looks set to be a runaway success if demand for the simultaneous offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai is a reliable gauge.

The issue is being deluged with cash from every conceivable direction: local Hong Kong tycoons, strategic investors from Asia and the Middle East, domestic and international institutions and, of course, Hong Kong’s redoubtable retail investors, who have been clamouring for application forms and financing loans to stag the issue.

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