CBDCs: China’s digital currency might raise financial privacy issues, national security concerns, political power challenge for US. ( read original story …)
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China’s short-term money rates rise for fourth day, approaching interest rate ceiling
China’s short-term money rates climbed for a fourth straight day on Thursday, with some key tenors approaching the higher end of the interest rate corridor, as tight cash conditions persisted and … ( read original…
China Won’t Exit From Stimulus Prematurely, PBOC’s Yi Says
China’s central bank won’t exit “prematurely” from its supportive monetary policies while at the same time keeping debt risks under control, Governor Yi Gang said. ( read original story …)
China c.bank says time was ‘ripe’ to scrap credit card interest rate limits
China’s central bank said on Thursday it had scrapped the upper and lower limits on banks’ credit card interest rates because the time was “ripe” to do so and it would help the lenders develop…
China’s Digital Yuan Reported To Be Ultimate Financial Censorship Tool
In a new report released yesterday by the Center for a New American Security, evidence of a 2018 PowerPoint presentation in China indicates what many may already have suspected – central bank digital … (…
China central bank policymaker says fintech needs regulation just like banks
Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said in a Financial Times op-ed fintech companies need to be regulated as financial institutions. ( read original story …)
China Is Crushing Leveraged Traders With Liquidity Withdrawals
China’s central bank is winning the battle against leverage, yanking billions of funds from the financial system and crushing a popular trade in the bond market. ( read original story …)
UPDATE 1-China 2020 fiscal spending up 2.8% y/y, revenue falls 3.9%
China’s fiscal revenue fell 3.9% in 2020 from a year earlier, while expenditure rose 2.8%, the finance ministry said on Thursday, underscoring the difficulties in government finances amid the COVID-19 … ( read original story…
Central bank digital cash could come to 20% of the world in three years – BIS
Central banks representing one-fifth of the world’s population are likely to issue their own digital currencies in the next three years, a survey by central bank umbrella group the Bank for … ( read original…
China Crushes a Highly Lucrative Bond Trade in Just 30 Days
China’s bond traders could buy sovereign debt with borrowed cash and net the best returns in almost seven years. Now they’re making next to nothing. ( read original story …)
China’s Crackdown Will Shake Up World’s Largest Fintech Market
In a four-year campaign to root out risks to China’s financial system, regulators have set upon their biggest target yet: the world’s largest financial technology sector. ( read original story …)
New pro-Beijing political party signals China’s future plans for HK
HONG KONG • As China moves to neutralise Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition, it is also giving the green light to a new political party that provides a window into how Beijing may change the ……
China’s Accelerated Recovery Key to Global Growth
Unlike other major economies, China has rebounded and its recovery is accelerating. It could fuel a third of global economic growth in 2021. With the Spring … ( read original story …)
