A total of 648,881 personal credit cards in circulation by the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, said the Monetary Authority of Macao SAR.
China's new yuan-denominated lending soared to 1.07 trillion yuan ($170.4 billion) in January, up 334 billion yuan year on year.
China's central bank has injected a record amount of cash into banks via open market operations to ease liquidity ahead of the holiday spending spree.
Hong Kong's offshore renminbi deposits, excluding Certificate of Deposits, could account for over 25 percent of total deposits in the city by 2015.
Renminbi deposits in Hong Kong increased by 5.6 percent to 603 billion yuan($96.8 billion).
Foreign capitalized banks in Shanghai earned total profits of 12.5 billion yuan in 2012, their strongest ever performance.
China's joint-stock commercial banks surpassed urban commercial banks in assets growth rates.
China saw rising capital inflows as banks bought more foreign currency than they sold for clients between September and December.
The growth of Chinese insurance companies' premium income slowed in 2012 after decades of robust increases.
Loans to the Chinese property sector accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2012 as the industry showed signs of recovering.
Non-performing loans held by banks in Shanghai in 2012 were worth over 27 billion yuan ($4.3 billion), with a NPL rate of 0.66 percent, up 0.06 percent year-on-year.
Net profit at CITIC Securities is forecasted to have plummeted 66.17 percent to 4.26 billion yuan in 2012 from the previous year.
The Ministry of Finance announced Wednesday that it will issue 30 billion yuan ($4.78 billion) in seven-year book-entry treasury bonds.
The yuan-denominated cross-border business of two major Chinese banks - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of China Ltd - surged in 2012.
HSBC China opened its 28th branch in the Chinese mainland in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
An index measuring the yuan's global use rebounded in November on broad-based pickup in activities and hit a new high of 737 from October's 731.
Net profit of the Everbright Securities went down 33.84 percent year-on-year to 1.02 billion yuan ($163 million) in 2012.
Net profit at China Minsheng Banking Corp Ltd surged 34.51 percent year-on-year to 37.56 billion yuan ($5.96 billion) in 2012.
The total net profits of China's securities brokerages plunged 16.4 percent year-on-year in 2012 partly due to the country's lackluster stock market.
China's stock market will see lock-up agreements on non-tradable shares worth 2.75 billion yuan ($438.51 million) expire next week.
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