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In a recent "2009 Selection of Values of Chinese Listed Companies & The 1st Selection of The Most Popular Network of Listed Company for Investors", ICBC won 6 big awards including "Top 100 Valuable Chinese Listed Companies", "Excellent Management Teams of Chinese Listed Companies", "Top 100 Secretaries of Board of Directors of Chinese Listed Companies", "The Best Chinese Listed Company with Social Responsibility", "The Most Popular Network of Listed Company for Investors" and "The Best Network of Chinese Listed Company in Information Disclosure".
According to introduction that "2008 Selection of Values of Chinese Listed Companies" was hosted by Securities Daily, aiming to praise some excellent listed companies with prominent financial performances, outstanding corporate governances, the first-class brands, strategies and management teams by which they can create great values for the shareholders persistently. Based on the financial condition, operational performance, corporate governance, investor relationship and other indicators, this selection established a database and made a comprehensive assessment on over 150 listed companies. By taking consideration of experts' opinions and the results from network votes, the winners were finally determined.
Meanwhile, "The Selection of The Most Popular Network of Listed Company for Investors" was the first introduced in this year in order to select some outstanding networks with the most friendly interfaces, most convenient accesses, most timely information disclosures, most positively mandatory disclosures of information, the closest, most efficient interactions and communications with investors, continuous innovations in communicating contents and strong capacities. The awards set include The Best Interaction Platform of Investor Relationship, The Best Network in Information Disclosure and The Most Popular Network of Listed Company for Investors.
An relevant officials of ICBC' said, the fact that ICBC won the 6 big honors fully demonstrates ICBC has been recognized by the market and investors in many ways such as operational performance, corporate governance, investment value and information disclosure. This year is the third consecutive year that ICBC won the "Top 100 Valuable Chinese Listed Companies". ICBC also obtained the "The Most Popular Network of Listed Company for Investors" that was set for the first time, "The Best Network of Chinese Listed Company in Information Disclosure" and other awards related to investor relationship and information disclosure. ICBC will continue to follow the strategic prospect of building the "most profitable, excellent and honorable" international first-class commercial bank, persistently enhance operational performance, continuously perfect corporate governance, earnestly fulfill its social responsibility as well as enhance the investor relationship management and information disclosure so as to create new values for shareholders, clients, employees, and other stakeholders.
SHANGHAI — China's biggest lender, state-owned Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, on Friday signed a $3.78-billion investment deal with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., American Express Co. and Germany's Allianz.
The deal, aimed at building "strategic partnerships" in banking, insurance and credit card businesses, will involve the purchase of newly issued shares in the Beijing-based bank, known as ICBC, the companies said. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
The bank earlier had announced that the three companies planned to buy a combined 10% stake.
Although the transaction will not be completed until April at the earliest, Allianz will begin immediately to sell investment funds and life insurance policies through ICBC's 20,000 outlets, a spokesman said.
New York-based American Express confirmed that it was contributing $200 million to the deal.
American Express has had a card marketing deal with ICBC since 2004.
Friday's deal caps a spate of multibillion-dollar investments by major international financial institutions angling for a share of China's potentially huge and lucrative market.
By October, foreign banks had pledged or put $16.5 billion into 16 Chinese banks, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission. Most of those investments were made in the last two years.
ICBC, which like other Chinese banks has been plagued with lending scandals and mountains of bad debt, expects the cooperation with its foreign partners to help improve its governance and risk controls. In a rare move, Goldman Sachs will appoint one member to ICBC's board.
With more than 20,000 branches, ICBC is a giant in an industry dominated by huge banks. By the end of September, its deposits totaled 5.59 trillion yuan, or about $700 billion.
