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GE Money eyes China credit card deal

By Florian Gimbel in Hong Kong

Published: October 23 2006 22:11 | Last updated: October 23 2006 22:11

GE Money, the consumer finance arm of General Electric, is close to launching a credit card in China in partnership with Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer.

The partnership, a key element of GE Money’s aggressive expansion into Asia’s fast-growing retail banking markets, could be announced as early as this week. It would mark GE Money’s first significant foray into the Chinese consumer finance market, where less than 5 per cent of the population have credit cards.

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