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With China's central bank finally starting to use the phrase "RMB internationalisation" to describe its efforts to promote the currency, the process looks set to enter a new stage this year. In contrast to earlier measures, the government's latest initiatives are all about encouraging capital and investment to go out into the wider world. That means it's time for China's domestic players to take a bigger role. -
GlobalCapital has outlined some of the reasons why sovereign QE is not the answer to the eurozone’s woes — and in the interests of fairness, we’ve provided one suggestion as to why it could be.
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European participants in the capital markets are waiting, with bated breath, for Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting and the expected announcement of quantitative easing, as well as the outcome of Greece’s Parliamentary elections on Sunday. But an interesting dynamic has set in around what were once thought to be two of the most important events of the start of 2015: no one seems to care much about either anymore.
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With even French president Francois Hollande saying earlier this week that the European Central Bank will announce sovereign quantitative easing on Thursday, there can be little doubt that ECB boss Mario Draghi is fitting the latest rocket into his bazooka as we write. Hollande may have had to embarrassingly backtrack since — with his office saying he was only talking hypothetically — but one can be certain that the flip flop is more down to a breach of etiquette, rather than an error.
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The European Commission wants credit ratings left out of financial regulation — a great move, if it can find something good to replace them. But it’s making the right decision for the wrong reason.
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Turkey’s central bank has had to fight hard to win respect as an institution independent of political pressure. With the country on firmer economic footing the central bank took its chance to cut rates — which will have delighted Turkey’s president. But the bank’s still shaky credibility and Turkey’s vulnerability to capital market vagary means there is more at stake.
