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Group Support Sustains Credit Quality of Bank-affiliated Leasing Companies in China

政策护航,破浪启新——标普信评2025年中行业信用发展趋势

财政部通报六起隐性债务问责典型案例——政府表态更趋严厉,坚决遏制新增隐债

主体评级报告: 富士康工业互联网股份有限公司,2025年8月5日

义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司高管变动不影响其信用质量


Group Support Sustains Credit Quality of Bank-affiliated Leasing Companies in China

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has negative impact on asset quality and profitability of bank-affiliated leasing companies in China, we expect them to maintain stable credit quality thanks to strong support from parent banks and ultimately the government. We believe the sharp revenue shock to financial leasing companies with large exposures to the aviation industry is controllable at the banking group level. 
Significant pressure is felt on the asset quality of the companies’ aircraft fleets. Distressed cash flows of the aviation industry are hurting the rental revenue of leasing companies in ways of deferrals of lease rentals, possible bankruptcy and return of aircrafts by airlines, restructuring of leases, and lower lease rates in a weak market. As COVID-19 keeps aircrafts on the ground around the world, airlines are forced to request for deferrals in lease payment and a few airlines outside China have filed for bankruptcy. After repossession of aircrafts from a bankrupt airline, revenue will probably be lost as lessors hold on idle aircrafts and try to find new lessees. A silver lining is that, if a bankrupt airline can be reorganized, there is a good chance of the reorganized airlines keeping the leased aircrafts, saving leasing companies the trouble of releasing repossessed aircrafts.
In addition, as the leasing market suffers from low demand, lease rates are likely to fall for repossessed aircrafts and those with leases expiring in 2020 or 2021. If the pandemic has a lasting influence on the market valuation of aircrafts, aircraft portfolios may be under further pressure.
In our opinion, the potential extent of aviation industry -related loss is subject to the development of the pandemic and governments’ support to the aviation industry. Given the global nature of aircraft leasing and leasing companies’ exposure to international airlines, Chinese financial leasing companies are also facing uncertainty in foreign governments’ support to their respective aviation industries.
Although large bank-affiliated leasing companies typically have significant exposure to the aviation industry, the contribution of aircraft fleets to parent banks’ total assets is typically small. Therefore, we believe the increase of risk related to aircraft assets is controllable at the group level. The exposure to the aviation industry mainly concentrates in top leasing companies affiliated with China’s top banks. The high creditworthiness of the parent banks mitigates the sharp shock caused by the pandemic, in our view.

In addition to aviation leasing, financial leasing portfolios are also under asset quality pressure. In our view, financial leasing asset portfolios have a risk profile similar to the corporate loan portfolios of banks, with exposure typically concentrating in manufacturing, infrastructure and utilities sectors within China. 
We believe bad debt pressure of financial leasing portfolios is mitigated by governments’ likely support to local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) and businesses in general. In addition, the highly overlapping client bases of banks and their leasing companies lead to positive synergy in risk management and mitigation. 

We anticipate the parent banks’ incentive and capability to support their leasing subsidiaries to remain stable. We consider the leasing business as integral to their banking groups’ strategy to be comprehensive providers of financial products and services. We believe China’s banking sector will remain stable thanks to strong government support (see “Government Support Mitigates COVID-19's Pressure On Chinese Banks’ Creditworthiness”, published on May 20, 2020). Chinese regulation requires parent banks to ensure capital adequacy and liquidity sufficiency of their affiliated leasing companies in times of need. 
We believe any government support to the banks will also flow to their leasing subsidiaries. Financial leasing companies’ forbearance measures for aviation and other hard-hit industries are consistent with government policy of having financial institutions help the real economy through the hard time. As the government prioritizes financial stability in this special period, we expect its incentive to support banks and their affiliated leasing companies to be strong. 
We expect the business growth of the financial leasing companies to be slower because aircraft leasing had been an important growing sector before the pandemic and aircraft leasing will probably not see any growth in 2020. Nevertheless, there are other business opportunities related to government-led infrastructure development.  
Despite the earnings pressure, we expect the companies’ capital level to remain adequate as their parent banks are required by regulation to replenish their capital when necessary. In addition, bank-affiliated leasing companies typically had adequate capital before the pandemic thanks to strong capital injection from parents and good earning capability. In addition, slower growth of operating leases is also likely to reduce capital consumption in 2020. 

We expect the funding and liquidity profiles of the bank-affiliated leasing companies to remain stable thanks to the ample systemwide liquidity in the inter-bank market and strong liquidity positions of their parent banks. Regulation requires the parent banks to provide liquidity support to their leasing subsidiaries. Due to the forbearance measures given to airlines and other hard-hit customers, the cash inflow of rental payment is reduced. Meanwhile, we expect their cash outflow related to capital spending to be lower than originally planned as aircraft delivery will probably be very few this year. 
Our stable outlook for the banking sector and bank-affiliated leasing companies in China is based on our economic forecast of a U-shape recovery in 2020 and 2021. We acknowledge a high degree of uncertainty about the economic recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak for both China and other countries. As the situation evolves, we will update our assumptions and estimates accordingly.

This report does not constitute a rating action.



政策护航,破浪启新——标普信评2025年中行业信用发展趋势

  • 预计2025年全国商品房销售压力仍存。高线城市继续支撑市场,但结构上仍面临二手房分流、库存分化明显的矛盾。稳住楼市仍有赖于政策的持续发力,城中村改造货币化安置及回储政策或将是政策发力的重点。
  • 受益于债务置换及专项债券用途扩展,城投企业流动性压力缓解,短期内出现债券信用风险事件的概率较低,但基本面难以显著改善。长期关注中央债务化解新增政策和城投转型成效。
  • 与房地产行业紧密相关联的钢铁和建筑工程施工行业将基本延续需求疲软趋势。其中钢铁行业“反内卷”和成本回落或有助于利润修复,但财务杠杆仍将维持高位;建筑工程施工行业利润率将在低位保持稳定。
  • 火电、风电设备和光伏制造行业的企业盈利能力或将改善,煤炭、清洁能源发电、整车制造以及商业物业持有及运营行业的企业利润率或将有所下降,杠杆率将有所上升。
  • 商业银行净息差继续收窄,信用成本依然承压,行业总体盈利性较2024年会有小幅下降,但信用质量仍然能保持稳定,未来12个月高风险银行违约风险可控。

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财政部通报六起隐性债务问责典型案例——政府表态更趋严厉,坚决遏制新增隐债

  • 财政部年内两次通报隐性债务问责案例,反映出地方化债形势依然严峻,中央政府监管依然 较为严格。
  • 7月30日召开的中共中央政治局会议重申加强地方债务风险防控,明确“有力有序有效推进 地方融资平台出清”。我们认为,政策意在剥离城投企业的政府融资职能,而非否定其主体 价值;未来,城投公司仍可通过市场化转型继续实现发展。
  • 近年来,中央政府采取力度空前的政策措施,全力支持地方政府化解隐性债务,但今年审计 署披露的违规举债情况表明,部分地区在化解隐性债务方面仍需改进和加强。在此背景下, 中央持续释放对违规融资“零容忍”的强烈信号,以防范地方政府可能出现的道德风险。 

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主体评级报告: 富士康工业互联网股份有限公司,2025年8月5日

2025年8月5日,标普信评发布富士康工业互联网股份有限公司的主体评级报告。

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义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司高管变动不影响其信用质量

2025年7月28日,义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司(以下简称“商城控股”或“公司”,原名“义乌中国小商品城控股有限责任公司”)发布《义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司关于董事长、法定代表人、总经理及信息披露事务负责人发生变动的公告》(以下简称“公告”)。公告显示,公司董事长、法定代表人、总经理及信息披露事务负责人发生变更,人员变动的原因和依据如下。 根据《义乌市人民政府关于陈德占等职务任免的通知》(义政干〔2025〕17号):陈德占任公司董事、董事长;免去王栋公司董事长、董事职务。根据《义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司章程》,公司的法定代表人由董事长担任,执行公司事务。根据《义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司股东决定》,委派陈德占为公司本届董事;免去王栋公司董事职务。根据《义乌中国小商品城控股集团有限公司董事会决定》,选举陈德占担任公司董事长,执行公司事务,为法定代表人;聘任陈德占担任公司总经理;原任职人员同时免去。经上述人事变动后,公司的董事长、法定代表人、总经理由王栋变更为陈德占。本次变动已完成公司内部审批流程,决策程序符合《公司法》等相关法律法规及公司章程的规定。截至公告出具之日,公司已完成工商变更登记手续。

标普信用评级(中国)有限公司(以下简称“标普信评”)认为,上述高管变动属于国有企业正常人事调整,不影响商城控股的信用质量。

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