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  • In the wake of this month's targeted reserve requirement ratio (RRR) easing moves in China there has been speculation that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) will follow up with broad-based interest rate cuts. Reports suggest the central bank may also add a Pledged Supplementary Lending facility to its range of monetary policy tools, writes Maia Ririnui of Total Derivatives.
  • Australia’s minister of trade and investment, Andrew Robb, and treasurer Joe Hockey were in Beijing on Tuesday for the inaugural Australia-China Strategic Economic Dialogue meeting. The aim was to discuss a free trade agreement and ways to boost Australia’s standing as a trading and investment partner.
  • In this week's round-up, Taiwan and London released data on RMB business, London and Frankfurt announced official RMB clearing banks, Ghana and Nepal announced plans to develop more renminbi business, and a trade zone in Hengqin announced plans for RMB investment products.
  • DBS and Standard Chartered on Friday announced their first renminbi loans to clients in the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), a Singapore-China co-operation zone in Jiangsu province, following similar transactions completed earlier this week by ICBC.
  • China's gradual push to internationalise its currency took a step in a new direction this week with the launch by the Shanghai Gold Exchange of an international gold trading platform that will allow the trading of offshore renminbi-denominated contracts by traders with accounts in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ).
  • The Singaporean unit of ICBC has transferred Rmb200m ($32m) to its Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ) branch, in what the bank said was the first example of an RMB treasury operation between the city-state and the FTZ.