....Mezzanine Finance eine Form von Subprime?
Chinese banks had as much as 200 billion yuan ($33 billion) of mezzanine financing in 2013, accounting for 2 percent of the nation’s annual property investment, according to estimates from Huang Jie, a Beijing-based CICC analyst. Real estate mezzanine financing makes up 10 percent to 20 percent of annual property investment in the nation, with trust companies and private equity funds contributing the most, Huang said.
Mezzanine financing in the property industry involves giving a loan to a developer while an affiliate of the bank buys a stake in the firm and sells it back at a later date. The deals are often structured in a way that makes them look like equity investments rather than loans.
“The move is to optimize credit allocation and streamline asset structure to better service the real economy,” Industrial Bank said in yesterday’s statement. “Mezzanine financing accounts for a very small portion of our business, so the suspension will have no material impact.”
Industrial Bank, part owned by Hang Seng Bank Ltd., has been among the most aggressive in real estate and local government financing. Exposure to those two industries, including off-balance sheet financing, accounted for about a third of its total assets by the end of June, the second-highest among China’s publicly traded banks, according to CICC data.
At least 10 Chinese cities, many of them provincial capitals, have tightened local property prices since November, with major cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou raising the minimum down payments for second homes to 70 percent from 60 percent.
Some Chinese developers may default on their debt as property-trust loans worth about 350 billion yuan mature this year, according to Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd.
“Banks have tightened property loans since 2011 and that has already driven developers to other more expensive sources of funding,” said Du Jinsong, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG. “There’s huge uncertainty on the property market now because it’s stuck in the worst-case scenario: the market isn’t doing great, but neither is it doing badly enough to warrant government help.”
Industrial Bank may also restrict funding to local governments that rely on less-regulated financing, according to Huang at CICC.
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