The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission announces the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Trustee Business of Commercial Banks (Trial), which will come into effect on February 1st next year.

According to the financial news app Securities Times, on December 12, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission announced the Measures for the Supervision and Management of Commercial Bank Custody Business (Trial), which will be implemented starting from February 1, 2026. It is mentioned in the measures that commercial banks engaging in custody business shall not engage in the following behaviors: confound the management of custodial product assets with their own assets; confound the management of assets held by different custodial products; embezzlement or misappropriation of custodial product assets; illegally using internal information for unfair profit; using or promising to use custodial business for profit transfer or exchange; and other behaviors prohibited by laws, regulations, and regulatory provisions.