China Everbright Bank

China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd. is one of twelve Chinese joint-stock commercial bank. Established in August 1992, it is a national joint-stock commercial bank approved by the State Council and approved by the People's Bank of China, headquartered in Beijing. It was ranked in 139th in 2016 Forbes Global 2000 publicly held companies.^[2] Sister company Everbright Securities ranked 862th.

China Everbright Bank

Headquarters in Beijing
Native name	中国光大银行
Company type	partial state-owned enterprise
Traded as	SSE: 601818 (A ordinary) SSE: 360013 (A preference) SEHK: 6818 (H ordinary)
Industry	Financial services
Founded	August 1992
Headquarters	China Everbright Center, 25 Taipingqiao Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing , China
Area served	China
Key people	Tang Shuangning (Charmian and Party Committee Secretary) Zhang Jinliang (CEO and Party Committee Deputy Secretary)
Services	Retail and corporate banking
Net income	CN¥29.5 billion (2015)
Total assets	CN¥3,167.7 billion (2015)
Total equity	CN¥223.5 billion (2015)
Owner	consortium of CHI (55.58%) general public (44.42%)
Parent	Central Huijin Investment
Capital ratio	9.24% (CET1)
Website	cebbank.com
Footnotes / references in a consolidated basis[1]

As of August 2016, it was a constituent of the Hang Seng China 50 Index for all Chinese companies among the three stock exchanges of China,^[3] as well as a constituent of the FTSE China A50 Index among two stock exchanges in mainland China and lastly a constituent of the SSE 50 Index of Shanghai.^[4] The bank also a constituent of the CSI 300 Index (and its sub-index CSI 100 Index) and other indices.^{[citation needed]}

China Everbright Group has been involved in numerous scandals lately, including a Ponzi scheme exposed in 2024. It used a company under its control to set up a Ponzi scheme to swindle hundreds of investors over $500m. The case is under investigation by the Beijing Public Security Bureau. The victims continue to protest outside Chine Everbright's headquarters demanding to speak with the company's high ranking officials. However, instead of addressing the victims appeals, the company has resorted to harassing the protestors. ^[5]

Shareholders

China Everbright Group and its subsidiaries owned 27.97% stake in the bank, Everbright Group's parent company, Central Huijin Investment owned 21.96% stake directly as the second largest shareholder of the bank. Moreover, the directors in the board of Everbright Group that nominated by Central Huijin Investment, were also nominated as the directors of the bank (as part of the shareholders' agreement from the State Council), thus Central Huijin Investment and China Everbright Group are the intermediate parent company of the bank.^[6] The ultimate parent company is the China Investment Corporation, which is supervised by the State Council of the People's Republic of China.^{[citation needed]}