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It has been six months since South Korea formally became an offshore renminbi hub, with its own official clearing bank. The last year has seen a massive increase in RMB deposits, tripling to about Rmb120bn ($19bn), but Yoo Jaehoon, chairman and CEO of Korea Securities Depository, the country's leading custody and settlement services provider, tells GlobalRMB that the key issue for RMB development in the country remains the expansion of its use in the real economy. -
After the boom comes the bust. If 2014 was a banner year for offshore RMB bond issuance, things are not looking too hot for 2015. Just four deals have priced so far, with the volume raised just a quarter of last year. Dim sum bonds have been a key tool of RMB internationalisation, but changing conditions have stripped them of their appeal. It’s time for Chinese authorities to get creative.
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In this round-up, free trade accounts launch in the Shanghai pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ), authorities announce an imminent expansion of FTZ policies to the entire country, the Bahamas is making a push to become the second RMB hub in the Americas, and ICBC announces big growth in its RMB cross-border business.
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Tools that enable firms to reduce the number of line items in a portfolio, while keeping the same risk profile, are changing the way market participants trade derivatives. These tools are becoming the new market norm as users look to optimise their balance sheets as increased regulation envelops the derivatives market. Gabriel Suprise was granted an exclusive interview with Lucio Biase, CEO, and Hilary Park, chief strategy officer at LMRKTS, a new firm that offers a novel type of tool in order to minimise counterparty risk. Topics of discussion included what LMRKTS is, how it works and why it is different from other compression offerings in the derivatives marketplace.
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The regulatory tide has turned, and banks are no longer trusted to assess their own capital needs. The Basel Committee’s latest proposals on bank disclosure, published on Wednesday, would add detailed information on internal modelling to existing bank reporting.
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Compression is behind a 3.6% drop in gross notional outstanding of interest rate derivatives between December 2013 and June 2014, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, who said that the growth in services available at central counterparties and other portfolio compression providers combined with regulatory pressure is driving the trend.
