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  • The renminbi is unlikely to be added to the basket of currencies underlying the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) facility until October 2016, even if the IMF Executive Board were to recommend inclusion when it announces the results of its review later this year, according to an IMF report on Tuesday night.
  • Funding for small and medium enterprises is everyone’s favourite thing. But unless it makes money, nobody will do it.
  • Zurich-based Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re) received the first quota in the RMB qualified foreign institutional investors (RQFII) programme among Swiss asset managers on July 29, according to the latest data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe).
  • In this round-up, RMB-denominated oil futures are to be open to foreign investors in China, the Brics-backed New Development Bank is to issue its first loan in RMB, and GF International has launched the first ETF based on the MSCI China A International Index in Asia.
  • Renminbi usage in South Africa has soared, according to data published this week by Swift. But although the country is still the only official offshore RMB hub in Africa, others are increasingly coming into the focus of Chinese regulators' internationalisation agenda. Kenya could soon see its first RMB clearing services, GlobalRMB understands.
  • China's recent stock market volatility has made some international investors more jittery about putting their money to work in the country's domestic markets, but it is not putting everyone off increase their exposure to Chinese assets.