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Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd.
It runs a giant bank through China's post office network, taking deposits and making loans for everyday people and small businesses.
Postal Savings Bank of China is a bank, but it is a bank that lives inside the post office. Walk into a branch in a small Chinese town or a rural village, and you may be standing in the same building where people mail letters and pick up parcels. That reach is the whole point: the bank has tens of thousands of outlets, most of them in places big commercial banks never bothered to open a door.
Its core business is boring in the best way. It collects deposits — lots of them, mostly from ordinary households who trust the name — and it lends money to small businesses, farmers, and retail customers who have a hard time getting credit elsewhere. It also sells wealth products and handles payments. The spread between what it pays savers and what it earns on loans is the engine of the whole thing. What makes the bank unusual is that it doesn't have to build its network from scratch. It piggybacks on the postal system's branches and staff, which keeps the cost of reaching millions of customers remarkably low. That gives it one of the biggest deposit bases in China and a cheap source of funding that most rivals would envy. The flip side is that this is still a bank tied to China's property market and economic cycle, and its loan book carries the same risks as everyone else's.
The bank is majority owned by China Post Group, the state postal operator, and it listed shares on the Hong Kong exchange in 2016 before adding a Shanghai listing. It pays a dividend and leans on its huge deposit franchise to keep growing steadily rather than spectacularly. In short, it is the friendly neighborhood bank that happens to be one of the largest banks in the world.
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