Last night's Fed minutes reinforced US policymaker expectations that we could well see multiple rate rises this year after last month’s rate rise, though officials remained cautious given the lack of clarity on the type of fiscal expansion that might be forthcoming in the coming months. In contrast to last year, this week’s data would…
Read moreTaiwan's central bank said this past week that it will require complex, high-risk Forex derivative instruments to go through regulatory approval before allowing banks to sell such products to clients, as first reported by Reuters. Currently, some financial products can be sold by banks to their customers without much regulatory oversight. The tightening comes after…
Read moreKorea's number one state owned bank, Korea Development Bank (KDB) made some history as announced first by the Korea Times. The bank became the first Korean lender qualified to raise yuan offshore to invest in onshore capital markets in China, the policy bank said Sunday. KDB per the Korea Times says it wants to invest…
Read moreHong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has received regulatory approval to introduce its planned cash-settled Euro-Renminbi (RMB), Japanese yen-RMB, Australian dollar-RMB and RMB-US dollar futures on Monday, 30 May 2016. HKEX is following up on their plans to further enhance its RMB offering outlined in their 2015 review; coming on the back of achieving yearly record…
Read moreIn her first interview since becoming head of FX settlement system CLS's Asia office in 2013, Rachael Hoey described talks with Chinese authorities as "constructive" and "positive" and said that the business CLS does in the region had grown significantly in that time. However Hoey told Reuters that actually integrating China's yuan with global settlement…
Read moreIn her first interview since becoming head of FX settlement system CLS's Asia office in 2013, Rachael Hoey described talks with Chinese authorities as "constructive" and "positive" and said that the business CLS does in the region had grown significantly in that time. However Hoey told Reuters that actually integrating China's yuan with global settlement…
Read moreSWIFT has earlier today published the latest edition of its RMB Tracker, the monthly report that monitors the international adoption of the Chinese currency. The yuan accounted for 1.76% of international payments by value in February 2016, down from a share of 2.45% in January 2016. Despite the fall, the Chinese currency remains at #5…
Read moreToday we learned from multiple reports emanating from the People's Bank of China (PBoC) that the Chinese central bank is going to place a reserve requirement on offshore renminbi, still mostly traded through Hong Kong banks. The move could be aimed at discouraging speculators that continue to bet that the CNH - offshore yuan could go lower. This all…
Read moreJust ahead of a crucial vote at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on whether the IMF will include the Chinese currency into its special drawing rights (SDR) basket, the Bank of Russia appears to have added the yuan to its Forex reserve basket. According to a report by Russia's information agency TASS, referring to two sources…
Read moreToday the International Monetary Fund or IMF will vote on whether to include the Chinese currency, known as the renminbi or yuan as the fifth member of its special drawing rights (SDR) currency basket. It has always been expected with the economic rise of China that the currency would eventually be included, however, China has been…
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