China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd. is one of twelve

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. Established in August 1992, it is a national joint-stock commercial bank approved by the State Council and approved by the People's Bank of China, headquartered in Beijing. It was ranked in 139th in 2016

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publicly held companies. Sister company Everbright Securities ranked 862th. As of August 2016, it was a constituent of the Hang Seng China 50 Index for all Chinese companies among the three stock exchanges of China, as well as a constituent of the FTSE China A50 Index among two stock exchanges in mainland China and lastly a constituent of the

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of Shanghai. The bank also a constituent of the

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(and its sub-index CSI 100 Index) and other indices. China Everbright Group has been involved in numerous scandals lately, including a Ponzi scheme exposed in 2024. It used a company under its control to set up a Ponzi scheme to swindle hundreds of investors over $500m. The case is under investigation by the Beijing Public Security Bureau. The victims continue to protest outside Chine Everbright's headquarters demanding to speak with the company's high ranking officials. However, instead of addressing the victims appeals, the company has resorted to harassing the protestors.

Shareholders

China Everbright Group and its subsidiaries owned 27.97% stake in the bank, Everbright Group's parent company,

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owned 21.96% stake directly as the second largest shareholder of the bank. Moreover, the directors in the board of Everbright Group that nominated by Central Huijin Investment, were also nominated as the directors of the bank (as part of the shareholders' agreement from the State Council), thus Central Huijin Investment and China Everbright Group are the intermediate parent company of the bank. The ultimate parent company is the

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, which is supervised by the

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