HONG KONG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Industrial & Commercial Bank of China <1398.HK> and China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. <2628.HK> are considered shoo-ins to join Hong Kong's benchmark stock index in the first ...

BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - ICBC, the world's largest bank by market value, will take a big step into China's insurance sector by acquiring a stake in Taiping Life Co via a complex equity deal, ...

It would be the first time Beijing has used special bonds to inject capital into insurers Read more at The Business Times.