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AmBank/Asiamoney Roundtable Video on Malaysia’s Foreign Exchange Part 2

A eurozone-induced global financial crisis could trigger a crash landing for the Chinese economy unless Beijing enacts a fresh stimulus, the IMF has warned

Here's a crib-sheet charting London's role as an offshore trading centre for the renminbi. But don't confuse these market developments with making the Chinese currency fully convertible

The IMF's decision to review whether China's currency is still "substantially undervalued" could prove a political bombshell given the US election season and the Fund's desire to tap Beijing for funding

The Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy bind - boosting growth and liquidity without fueling inflation - is set to remain firmly entrenched, even amid a tentative recovery in the rupee

Do China's January PMI numbers point to a further contraction in manufacturing or to a recovery? Both, if the range of views following the release is anything to go by

Weaker Brent crude prices - especially in local currency terms - are likely to buoy Asia markets, and boost monetary easing. But it's a different story for EEMEA, according to a Bank of America report

The chief executive of RBS has been hounded into giving up a bonus that he had been awarded. No one — least of all the UK government — should be proud.

Moody's reckons the ECB's long term refinancing operation is credit negative for Europe's banks. It's hard to square this with the relief it is providing the sector, but the agency is right to warn of the dangers of relying on central bank funding.

US regulators rightly acted to boost money market funds’ resilience to shocks after the Reserve Primary Fund “broke the buck” in 2008. But given the funds’ performance during the crises of 2011, further risk reduction proposals are unnecessary and could be detrimental to regulators’ intentions.

The shine appears to have come off the offshore renminbi market. Funding costs are rising, bond investors are posturing and some analysts now think that renminbi deposits in Hong Kong will actually fall this year, after an almost unbroken growth streak for the last two years. That is bad news for loans bankers.

If requirements for minimum block sizes for credit-default swaps are improperly gauged, firms could get a 30-minute window into large trades by taking advantage of overlapping laws requiring transparency and automatic sweeps from swap execution facilities.