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BEIJING — China’s former fi nance minister Lou Jiwei suggested that China could restrict the number of banks a single fintech platform can partner with, to prevent any platform from gaining too much market share, state media reported on Sunday. Speaking at a wealth management forum on Saturday, Lou, who remains influential as the external a ff airs director at a top advisory body to the Chinese government, warned that a fintech platform with an oversized market share can lead to bad debts, the Securities Times said. “We can limit the number of banks that any single platform can work...
