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China’s ‘930 Rules’ Reshape Online Lending Ads as Banks Return to Social Feeds

China’s new financial product online marketing rules, the ‘930 Rules’ issued by eight government departments, have forced lending platforms to overhaul their advertising. Slogans like ‘instant approval, instant payout’ and ‘low threshold, low rates’ have vanished from social media and short-video channels. Bank of Hangzhou, Xiaoying Card Loan and Ctrip Finance have returned to social feeds with ads that now disclose the lending entity, annualized costs, risk warnings and liability terms.

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The shift matters less as a compliance story than as a redistribution of attention: platforms that built acquisition on speed-and-cheapness messaging lose their cheapest hook, while banks with balance sheets and brand recognition gain a more level feed. Smaller lenders and pure intermediaries that relied on aggressive copy face the sharpest adjustment. Whether the disclosed annualized costs prove as clickable as the old slogans is the open question, and whether enforcement stays uniform across social and short-video channels will determine if the reset holds.

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