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China's regulators want commercial banks to replenish capital by using retained profit or other methods before considering additional share sales, the Securities Times reported on Monday, citing a senior official.
Chinese shares closed higher Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 6.8 points, or 0.22 percent, to 3,057.33.
China still has room to further tighten monetary policy, the official China Securities Journal said in a front-page editorial on Monday.
China's banking regulator will launch a thorough examination this year of loans extended over the past few years, and will tighten the issuance of banking licenses in response to global easing of liquidity, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday.
Asian stocks fell for the first week in four as China's inflation rose faster than estimated and the International Monetary Fund cut growth forecasts for the United States and Japan.
China and New Zealand have signed a 25 billion yuan ($3.83 billion) bilateral currency swap deal, the Chinese central bank said on Monday.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should work on the management of cross-border capital flows and global liquidity, the deputy governor of China's central bank said, highlighting inflation as a global "policy issue".
The central bank raised the amount of money that banks must hold in reserve by 50 basis points on Sunday - the fourth hike this year - to mop up excessive liquidity and control inflation in the world's second-largest economy.
China Credit Rating Co Ltd, the country's first rating agency to charge investors, said Friday it signed agreements with 17 financial institutions.
China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday it will sell 10 billion yuan ($1.53 billion) in book-entry discount treasury bonds next week at an annual interest rate of 2.55 percent.
China's biggest investment bank is turning "cautious" on the country's stocks, just as six of its overseas rivals and the manager of the largest mutual fund say it's time to buy.
China faces speculative capital inflows in the next couple of years and should be clearly aware of the potential shock when the capital flees, top executives warned.
