China Postal Bank Defies Market Turmoil With $8 Billion IPO Plan

(Bloomberg) Global bank shares are gyrating after the U.K. vote to leave the European Union. Hedge fund managers and analysts are sounding increasingly dire warnings about the bad debts piling up on the balance sheets of Chinese banks.

Enter Postal Savings Bank of China Co., which last week shrugged off the naysayers and filed a listing application with the Hong Kong stock exchange. The bank, China’s sixth largest in terms of assets, is seeking to raise $8 billion in what could be the world’s largest IPO this year.

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