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Saturday, March 14, 2026
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Topic: Chinese banks

‘Shadow banking’, ‘rotten tails’ & mortgage boycotts — how China’s housing market unravelled

This is the edited transcript of ThePrint CutTheClutter Episode 1363, published on 7 December 2023, on China’s housing crisis & ‘shadow banking’ sector.

Anil Ambani says his net worth is zero, can’t pay Chinese banks back

A London court has ordered Anil Ambani to pay $100 million to three Chinese banks which are seeking $700 million in defaulted loans from his RCom.

Anil Ambani’s loan default testimony ‘implausible and highly unlikely’, London judge says

The setback for Anil Ambani came in a dispute with three Chinese banks seeking $680 million in defaulted loans.

Anil Ambani has to now return $2.1 billion to Chinese banks

Anil Ambani’s RCom owes money to China Development Bank, Exim Bank of China & Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.