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How a Chinese company pressed JP Morgan to make hires

For seven years, Taikang Life Insurance, one of China’s biggest insurers, tantalised JP Morgan with talk of going public.

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For seven years, Taikang Life Insurance, one of China’s biggest insurers, tantalised JP Morgan with talk of going public.

Capitalising on the bank's eagerness to win the business, Taikang asked the bank to hire, one by one, various family and friends of its executives, internal JP Morgan emails show.

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