Lü Yi built a massive business network on billions of yuan in fraudulent loans and turned rural banks into personal ATMs. Then he vanished

Cai Guohua, 55, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve after being convicted of abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement, bribery and illegal loan issuance

Regulators’ master plan shifts part of responsibility for bailouts, mergers of smaller lenders into the hands of provincial-level authorities

Nasdaq-listed Wuhan Kingold put up 83 tons of purported gold bars as collateral, but now lenders are finding at least some of it was just gilded copper

Policymakers are planning to allow local governments to invest about 200 billion yuan to help risky lenders buckling under too much bad debt

Cai Guohua’s long-delayed trial opens Tuesday on charges of abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement, bribery and illegal loan issuance

Shandong government has agreed to buy half of the 60 billion shares that an investment firm plans to purchase in the lender’s upcoming 100 billion yuan private placement

Jiang Xiyun plans appeal as three associates get prison sentences for their roles in bribery and illegal accounting involving more than $100 million

Investment led by sovereign fund and Shandong government is part of regulators’ efforts to restructure troubled financial institutions to contain risks

Financial regulator approves bookkeeping measure for lender to increase its registered capital

Troubled Hengfeng Bank gets go-ahead for a restructuring plan that will see it receive investment from government-controlled entities

Once a promising young official, Pu Bo’s appetite for power and money became his downfall

Hengfeng Bank’s ex-chairman accused of transferring of bank shares to himself, relatives

Shandong government, regulators install new leadership after year-long internal power struggle, embezzlement allegations