{"id":1348,"canonical_title":"China shuts hundreds of banks as Beijing moves to shore up its financial system","primary_category":null,"first_published_at":"2026-10-05T10:20:38Z","latest_published_at":"2026-10-05T10:20:38Z","article_count":1,"source_count":1,"importance_score":null,"articles":[{"id":2015954,"source":{"id":22,"name":"CNBC Top News"},"category":null,"topics":[],"title":"China shuts hundreds of banks as Beijing moves to shore up its financial system","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/china-banks-consolidation-economy.html","published_at":"2026-10-05T10:20:38Z","collected_at":"2026-10-05T10:34:53.544683Z","content":null,"summary":"Beijing shuttered 670 mainly rural banks last year in a bid to create fewer, larger and better-capitalized lenders.","enrichment":null}]}