E-Investing Spurs Banks to Raise Interest Rates for Deposits

(Beijing) – Many big banks in the country have moved to offer the highest possible interest rates for deposits despite the central bank's advice they not do this.

The lenders had to act because they were losing customers fast to the emerging league of high-yield money market funds offered by Internet companies such as Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, an executive at a large bank said.