Bank of China Ltd. has emerged as one of the largest foreign lenders to commercial real estate in the U.S. Now the state-owned Chinese bank is looking for ways to make even more loans in a quintessential American way: packaging its loans into securities that are in turn sold in a market where demand is red hot.
Bank of China's interest in securitization coincides with an unprecedented start for the commercial-mortgage-bond market in 2013. The Federal Reserve's low interest-rate policies have pushed more investors from relatively safer investments to those with higher yields and greater risks...............................................Full Article: Source
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