[EXCLUSIVE China eyes pushing US IPO-bound firms to hand over data control sources] Chinese regulators are considering pressing data-rich companies to hand over management and supervision of their data to third-party firms if they want US stock listings, sources said, as part of Beijing’s unprecedented scrutiny of private sector firms. The regulators believe bringing in third-party information security firms, ideally state-backed, to manage and monitor IPO hopefuls’ data could effectively limit their ability to transfer Chinese onshore data overseas, one of the people said. That would help ease Beijing’s growing concerns that a foreign listing might force such Chinese companies...