Chinese banks in Italy: From their internationalization to the role played in the italian territory, through the sino-italian cooperation.

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the role that Chinese banks play in an internationalization process, especially in Italy, focusing on the commercial side of a bank. China has gradually become one of the strongest global countries in economic terms, but in the recent period the saturation of the Chinese market has become a consistent problem, which is added to the country needs to expand its market and enter new ones, “going globally”, in order to find new resources. To achieve this objective in the safest way, Chinese companies need the guidance of their banks. The consequence is that these have to follow their customers –mainly companies– in the internationalization process, so as to maintain their competitiveness, with the implication of moving abroad too. After having described the role of Chinese banks in the companies’ internationalization process, I will focus on the Italian case. First of all it will be clarified the reason why Chinese companies choose Italy, considering its rules, regulation and supervision. Also a brief comparison with the Chinese case will be made. Consequently the analysis on what the approach with the Italian country (Government, companies and banks) will be, as a natural consequence, a description of the four major Chinese banks present in the Italian territory –Bank of China, Bank of Communications, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China– will be provided.