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Singapore set to be RMB gateway to Asean region
The recent doubling of the People’s Bank of China’s swap facility with Singapore highlights the increasing importance of the Asean region to the use of RMB – potentially giving the South-east Asian...
The global structured products market faces many hurdles but Jersey-based Standard Bank Offshore is benefiting from being outside the eurozone and beyond the tarnish of the US and UK banking scandals....
The UK dependency of Jersey has taken steps to tighten its regime of financial supervision to combat the perception dogging many offshore financial centres that it offers a haven for tax dodgers and money...
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HKMA focuses on offshore renminbi: Norman Chan interview
Proximity and tradeflows have seen Hong Kong emerge as the default centre for offshore renminbi trading. Norman Chan, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, explains how his organisation aims to facilitate the market’s further development...
Mitigating the risk of organised crime on banks' call centres
To avoid having its call centre targeted by an organised crime gang, a bank needs to ensure it has enough controls in place to deter criminals, but not so many that it becomes less useful to customers
Hong Kong retail investors look to ELIs for their yield needs
Retail investors in Hong Kong are favouring equity-linked investments on the back of more stringent regulatory requirements for structured products. At the same time, the appetite for foreign exchange-linked products – most of which escape the new rules...
Video: Schroders HK chief bullish on development of offshore RMB bond...
Lieven Debruyne, chief executive of Schroder Investment Management (Hong Kong), is eyeing up opportunities in the dim sum bond market
New horizons in Latin America: market overview
As uncertainty in developed countries continues, the emerging markets of Latin America offer increasingly attractive investment prospects. But market idiosyncrasies mean that establishing and building up a structured products business in this region comes...
Offshore CNY deliverable forwards in Hong Kong to outgrow NDFs
Rising offshore renminbi interbank rates in Hong Kong have made its deliverable forwards market the cheapest forum compared with NDFs and onshore forwards for corporates to hedge, bankers say
Spot USD/CNH fixing in HK poised to become derivatives benchmark
Hong Kong interbank participants have created the first US dollar to offshore renminbi price fixing giving the city first-mover advantage in becoming an offshore centre for renminbi products such as derivatives, say market participants
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