China’s financial clean-up whittles thousands of peer-to-peer lenders down to just 29, with US$115 billion in outstanding debt

• ‘We’ll assist public security authorities to track down the money even if there is only a glimmer of hope,’ Guo Shuqing, chairman of CBIRC
• Only 29 of the more than 6,000 peer-to-peer lenders remain after China’s four-year crackdown