ICBC to Name President Yi Huiman as New Chairman

(Beijing) – The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest bank in terms of assets, is expected to name its president and vice chairman, Yi Huiman, to succeed its outgoing chairman Jiang Jianqing, bank employees said.

Officials from the ruling Communist Party's personnel department appointed Yi as the bank's Party Secretary to replace Jiang on May 16, an arrangement that sealed his candidacy for the top position, the sources said.