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  • Citi has created a consolidated Asia Pacific debt syndicate team as it seeks to take advantage of the growing relevance of local currency markets, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
  • The fate of credit default swaps referencing Novo Banco still hung in the balance on Friday, with ISDA’s Determinations Committee unable to decide after three days of wrangling whether the Portuguese bank had triggered a government intervention credit event or a succession event.
  • China’s attempts to allow markets forces to play a bigger role in the currency seemed to have backfired this week with both the onshore RMB (CNY) and its offshore (CNH) counterpart experiencing a tumultuous ride. Further depreciation is expected but the big unknown remains how policy makers will act.
  • In the first RMB round-up of 2016, Hong Kong RMB deposits and cross-border trade settlement recovered in November, RQFII programme added three new entities in December 2015, the Hong Kong and Singapore exchanges both saw strong futures trading volumes in December, ICBC managed nearly Rmb1tr in RMB-won trades, and Zimbabwe will make RMB one of its legal tenders this year. Plus, a recap of GlobalRMB’s top stories this week.
  • As news of the UK and US investigation into SSA market trading practices broke, the SSA market split over whether the banks at the heart of the probe would lose primary business.
  • In the wake of the news that four traders at different banks were under investigation by US and UK authorities over possible sharing of client flow information, senior bankers were quick to blame the structures of the market, and pressure from issuers focused on turnover statistics, for making it possible.