A draft amendment to China’s Banking Supervision and Management Law was
submitted to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee for a second
review on Aug. 25. The second-draft tightens obligations on banking supervisory
agencies to protect consumers and adds explicit prohibitions on banking
institutions and their staff misappropriating client funds, forced bundling or
tied selling, breaching suitability rules by offering products beyond customers’
risk capacity, and using improper debt-collection methods. To strengthen legal
support for preventing and resolving banking risks, the draft splits Chapter IV
into separate Supervisory Measures and Risk Disposal chapters, clarifies
central–local responsibilities for bank risk resolution, broadens risk-disposal
powers, and specifies how the deposit insurance fund management agency may
participate in resolution.