{"id":1115972,"date":"2026-07-28T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1115972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:19:35","slug":"cash-at-chinese-banks-swells-to-record-high-as-borrowing-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1115972\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash at Chinese banks swells to record high as borrowing slows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/china-debt-crunch\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China debt crunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Lenders are carrying $9.4tn more in deposits than they have out in loans<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260728 china shopping mall\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A shopping mall in Beijing. Falling home prices have generated a persistent negative wealth effect that continues to weigh on Chinese consumers.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING &#8212; Cash is piling up in China&#8217;s banking system as businesses and households cut back on borrowing amid mounting economic uncertainty fueled by escalating tensions in the Middle East and a yearslong property downturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China debt crunch Lenders are carrying $9.4tn more in deposits than they have out in loans A shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1115973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51319,331,3425,51,2835,16536,1700,63156,177935,243918,16,15],"class_list":["post-1115972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-high","tag-banks","tag-borrowing","tag-business","tag-cash","tag-chinese","tag-economy","tag-record","tag-slows","tag-swells","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116997337447539035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}