Lawmakers Call Out US Banks for Backing Blacklisted Chinese Battery Maker

In January, the Department of Defense designated several companies, including CATL, as Chinese military companies.
Lawmakers Call Out US Banks for Backing Blacklisted Chinese Battery Maker
The exhibition display of CATL, a Chinese electric battery maker, stands at the 2019 IAA Frankfurt Auto Show in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on Sept. 11, 2019. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Catherine Yang
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Lawmakers with the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on May 20 criticized American banks for backing a blacklisted Chinese battery maker, suggesting legislation was needed to explicitly prohibit this.

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) went public on the Hong Kong stock exchange on May 20,  and serving as joint sponsors were Chinese companies China International Capital Corporation and China Securities International, and American companies BofA Securities and J.P. Morgan. Overall coordinators included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS. Joint global coordinators included BNP Paribas and Guotai Junan International.