Yang Changkun, managing director for shipping at Beijing-based ICBC Financial Leasing, chose last week’s Marine Money conference in Shanghai to make public the results of a recent internal strategic review of the company’s history in shipfinance and its prospects in the current market situation. The company plans to behave more like an owner and less like a banker.

Yang and his boss, ICBC deputy chief executive Ji Fuxing, led off the event where they were the main sponsor.