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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

“(Highly risky loans) among microcredit companies (in China) are not widespread,” Qin Huichun, CEO of China Commercial Credit, tells China Money Network in a phone interview from the company’s office in Wujiang district in Suzhou.

All of China Commercial Credit’s loans are secured with real assets as collateral. As a comparison, about 80% to 90% of loans under $1 million in the U.S. is secured with collateral in 2013, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve.