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HSBC has launched a $290 million lending facility aimed at technology start-ups and other new industries in China's Pearl River Delta region, intensifying the battle for a slice of a business that is growing despite a slowing economy.


Showered with money from private investors over the last few years, the promising technology start-ups in China Asics Gel Saga II Black Purple Cheap , the world's second-largest economy, have shunned traditional lenders, seeking to instead raise funds directly from equity investors.

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As a result, banks such as HSBC and Citigroup, as well as a host of Chinese lenders, are now courting the emerging Chinese firms by offering loans and other banking services.


With the launch of its 2 billion yuan ($290 million) "innovation fund" for small and medium-sized companies in the Guangdong province of the Pearl River Delta region Asics Gel Saga White Cheap , HSBC plans to target this promising segment and boost its client base.


"The target customer will be those (that) are high-end, high-tech start-ups and enterprises ... those enterprises that are upgrading the use of technology and ability to innovate like for example using robotics to manufacture more efficiently," said Montgomery Ho, HSBC's chief executive for Guangdong.


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The lending facility also underlines HSBC's commitment to the Pearl River Delta region that is at the heart of the bank's strategy to grow in the country.


The southern China region, which counts Shenzhen and Guanzhou among its biggest cities, is home to 11 industrial cities that are set to fuse into one megalopolis. It has a GDP that is already bigger than Indonesia's and is transitioning from a traditional manufacturing base to a tech powerhouse.


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"We are on track and the morale here in Pearl River Delta is very strong because we have seen some concrete progress in the last 12 months already," he said, adding its loan book in the Guangdong province rose 14 percent in the first half of this year over a year-ago period.


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