Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)
Offshore CNY deliverable forwards in Hong Kong to outgrow NDFs
Rising offshore renminbi interbank rates in Hong Kong have made its deliverable forwards market the cheapest forum compared with NDFs and onshore forwards for corporates to hedge, bankers say
Citi reverses stance on Lehman notes offering $136m group repurchase settlement
Citi has become the final major bank to reach a repurchase agreement with Hong Kong regulators on Lehman Brothers related structured products. But Lehman-related enforcement action is expected to rumble on.
US still has no plans to give Asian sovereigns Dodd-Frank exemption, says Hong Kong regulator
Asian countries are concerned about the lack of Dodd-Frank Act CCP exemptions for sovereigns; proliferation of CCPs carries its own risks, say dealers
Spot USD/CNH fixing in HK poised to become derivatives benchmark
Hong Kong interbank participants have created the first US dollar to offshore renminbi price fixing giving the city first-mover advantage in becoming an offshore centre for renminbi products such as derivatives, say market participants
Supervisors seek to manage shadow banking risks
Chasing shadows
Lookback
Lookback
Hong Kong seeks to create ‘fixing’ rate for offshore renminbi; move will bolster derivatives market
Hong Kong's efforts to create an offshore renminbi fixing rate are viewed as strategically important for the development of the offshore renminbi, with such a benchmark essential for the growth of CNH derivatives, say market experts
HKMA warns on US dollar funding risk from China corporate lending
Hong Kong branches of Chinese commercial banks are increasingly lending US dollars to state-backed enterprises. The surge in dollar demand from Chinese corporates comes as lending is squeezed onshore by Beijing's efforts to limit the credit growth of…
Transitions in Asia still reliant on sovereigns
Soft-soaping the non-sovereigns
Asian regulators get tough on liquidity ring-fencing
Ring-fencing liquidity
The Lehman Brothers aftermath rolls on
The Lehman caseload
Offshore renminbi structured notes for Singapore
Offshore renminbi structured notes for Singapore
HKMA’s Yuen urges banks to take action now on Basel III LCR; warns of negative impact for corporate debt markets
Banks should begin preparing in earnest to meet the Basel III liquidity requirements as regulators begin the process of supervising banks’ compliance with the new rules, according to the deputy chief executive of the HKMA.
China and HK central banks close to finalising new CNH clearing arrangement
Market participants are close to completing the legal and operational details relating to a new custodian account arrangement that would allow the city's participating banks in offshore renminbi to take credit risk against the People's Bank of China…
Navigating the nuances of ETFs
Navigating the nuances of ETFs
StanChart to repurchase HK$1.48bn of Lehman ELNs; regulatory probe continues
Standard Chartered has reached a resolution with the SFC and HKMA to repurchase HK$1.48 billion of equity linked notes issued by Lehman Brothers but admitted no liability related to mis-selling the notes. Regulators said the bank should have performed…
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2011
Renminbi restraints
Revised Basel III liquidity rules force Asia into uncharted territory
Uncharted territory
Muted demand in Hong Kong for renminbi-denominated structured notes
Muted demand in Hong Kong for renminbi-denominated structured notes
DBS to debut CNH structured notes in Singapore; close-out settlement backstop in place to deal with China policy u-turn
DBS is set to become the first financial institution to offer renminbi structured notes and unit trust to private banking clients in Singapore on February 28. The bank has also drawn up contingency plans to address the policy risk of Beijing changing its…
DBS risk chief fears Basel III liquidity rules still ‘not realistic’
Elbert Pattijn, chief risk officer at DBS in Singapore, believes modifications to Basel III liquidity rules made late last year may still fall short of industry requirements to meet the final regulatory definitions of high quality liquid assets.
CBRC chief adviser Sheng brands financial engineering ‘a cancer’
Andrew Sheng, a veteran regulator who acts as a chief adviser to China’s top banking regulator, believes ‘creative destruction’ needs to take place when financial engineering goes beyond an optimal level, as it did in 2007-2008.