- Business
- Bank of Chengdu Co., Ltd. (601838.SS) operates as a city commercial bank providing a range of corporate banking, personal banking, and treasury services in China. Its corporate banking segment offers corporate loans, discounted bills, corporate deposits, trade chain financing, guarantees, real estate development loans, legal person account overdrafts, and fee- and commission-based products and services; personal banking includes personal loans, personal deposits, personal finance, bank cards such as the Furong Jincheng series (one-card, gold, platinum, and diamond variants), credit cards, and fee- and commission-based products; treasury operations encompass money market business, portfolio management, interbank market activities, and wealth management products including Ningyin Wealth Management Ningxin Tian Tian Liujin series, Furong Jincheng Cheng Hui 7-day holding period open-ended net value products, Xingfu 99 Fengyu fixed-income products, funds, and agency national bonds. The bank also provides electronic banking services via personal and corporate online banking, mobile banking, and phone banking; personal loans such as Youyi Loan, comprehensive consumer loans, and first-home mortgages; small and micro enterprise financing including Hui Di Loan, Wen Chuang Tong, and Gu Gai Loan; personal cross-border financial services like foreign exchange deposits, settlement and sales, remittances; insurance agency, and payment services such as payroll, social insurance, and utility fee collection. Founded in 1996 and headquartered at No. 16 Xiyu Street, Chengdu, Sichuan, the bank primarily serves urban and rural residents, small and micro enterprises, and the local economy in the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle and surrounding regions, with 256 branches including 14 directly-managed, 31 sub-branches, and 211 community branches as of end-2023; it maintains a subsidiary relationship with Jiangsu Baoying Jincheng Village Bank Co., Ltd. and lists Hong Leong Bank Malaysia as a strategic overseas partner. In recent developments, the bank continues to integrate into the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle with RMB26.5 billion in loans to 176 municipal key projects as of 2024, advances its "anchoring with retail, propelling with technology, empowering with talents" strategy emphasizing large retail business, digital finance, and "all-in-one four-wheel drive" development, and experienced dilution of Hong Leong Bank's stake in 2025 following convertible bonds conversion into new ordinary shares; it issued its 2024 annual report in early 2025 and announced adjustments to personal housing loan interest rate pricing mechanisms in late 2024.