Founded in 1987 with its head office in Shenzhen, China Merchants Bank is China’s first share-holding commercial bank wholly owned by corporate legal entities, and the first listed company to pass external auditing appraisals based on international accounting standards. It was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2002. CMB’s assets exceed 600 billion Yuan, and it is ranked among the world’s top 200 banks by British financial journal The Banker.