China

CBDC, China

The People’s Bank of China has filed more than 80 patents related to its secretive plans to launch a digital currency, according to new research that shows the extent of…

Reuters: Japan lawmakers push government for G7 talks on digital yen

February 7, 2020

China, digital currency, Japan

Japan should prepare to issue digital currencies and propose bringing up the topic at this year’s G7 meetings to counter China’s move toward issuing a digital yuan, a group of…

SCMP: China to inject US$174 billion of liquidity into markets amid new coronavirus outbreak

February 3, 2020

China, Liquidity, reverse repo, South China Morning Post

China’s central bank has announced it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan (US$174 billion) into markets via reverse repo operations on Monday Investors are bracing for the worst when markets resume…

Central banks consider new growth tools amid coronavirus worries

January 28, 2020

China, ECB, Federal Reserve, Interest rates, Regulatory

China, coronavirus, ECB, Federal Reserve, monetary policy, topstory

The Fed may be looking at the end of its already broadened toolkit for boosting growth. The ECB is considering all of its policy options while expressing frustration with politicians.…

China’s digital currency project: why you should pay attention now (Premium)

November 26, 2019

China, Cryptocurrency, US

China, digital yuan, reserve currency, topstory, US dollar

Psst – look over here! While the financing and collateral worlds are waiting for year end market disruptions in the short-term, the biggest story on the medium-term horizon is China’s…

Finadium: Local Currency Repo in Asia: Collateral Growth and the Path to Mass Adoption

November 18, 2019

Asia, China, Repo

Asia, China, Japan, Repo, topstory

Finadium has conducted an investigation into local currency repo in Asia. This report offers market sizing, a review of specific country and pan-Asian repo trends, and data on how impactful…

Is there offshore demand for Chinese bonds as collateral? (Premium)

November 14, 2019

China, Collateral Management, Fixed Income

Bonds, China, collateral, offshore, onshore, topstory

At ¥95.5 trillion (US$13.7 trillion), the Chinese bond market is big and growing. Chinese institutions would like to see Chinese bonds accepted as collateral offshore. The effort faces obstacles however.…

Institutional crypto weekly roundup

October 30, 2019

Bakkt, bitcoin futures, blockchain, Canada, CBDC, China, crypto regulation, IBM, ICO, OMFIF, Ontario Securities Commission, retail, Thailand, TokenGX

Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets participants and regulators are engaging with digital assets. Credit Suisse, SocGen to use Paxos blockchain settlement for US equities Paxos Trust…

HKEX picks TNS for connectivity, managed hosting and market data access

October 15, 2019

China, exchanges, HKEX, TNS

Transaction Network Services (TNS) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) have signed an agreement for connectivity, managed hosting and market data access that will give financial market participants greater…

HSBC facilitates first T+3 trade in China Interbank Bond Market

August 29, 2019

China, HSBC

HSBC announces that it has successfully facilitated the first T+3 trade in the China Interbank Bond Market (CIBM), right after the official announcement to extend bond settlement cycle for overseas…

Capital markets blockchain weekly roundup

July 22, 2019

Bakkt, Binance, bitcoin futures, CBDC, China, crypto custody, crypto exchanges, crypto fund, FINRA, ICE, institutional crypto, PBOC, regulatory reporting

Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets and regulators are engaging with digital assets. FINRA issues notice for digital asset reporting FINRA reminded members to keep the regulator…

Perspectives and approaches in AI ethics: East Asia

June 25, 2019

AI ethics, Asia, China, Japan, South Korea

This chapter introduces readers to distinct Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean perspectives on and approaches to AI and robots as tools and partners in the AI ethics debate. Little discussed…

Reuters: China improves short-selling mechanism ahead of tech board launch

June 23, 2019

China, Reuters, Short selling

China’s securities regulator on Friday published guidelines on mutual funds participating in the securities lending business, as part of efforts to improve China’s short-selling mechanism. Under the business, mutual funds…

PanAgora: machine learning’s promise and pitfalls

June 18, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Technology

AI ethics, CAIA, China, machine learning, natural language processing, Panagora

When CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association) conducted a survey on the use of machine learning in the investment process, the vast majority of respondents proved to be in “raising…

SCMP: China launches its own Nasdaq

June 17, 2019

China

Beijing has officially launched its new technology innovation board, which is being dubbed China’s Nasdaq-style market. Huang Hongyuan, chairman of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, told the Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai…

MIT TR: Beijing’s AI ethics move signals openness to dialogue

June 7, 2019

AI ethics, China, MIT Technology Review

This week, Chinese scientists and engineers released a code of ethics for artificial intelligence that might signal a willingness from Beijing to rethink how it uses the technology. And while…

SCMP: Ping An plans to be advanced tech provider for Hong Kong banks

June 5, 2019

artificial intelligence, bigtech, blockchain, China, Hong Kong, NLP, Ping An

Ping An OneConnect, a virtual bank licence holder and the fintech arm of Ping An Insurance, is developing a range of technology that can help manage fraud and loan default…

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships round-up

WeBank and SwissRe team up for insurance AI WeBank and SwissRe announced an MoU signing towards cooperation focusin on Federated Learning, one of the latest developments in the world of…

China tech giant units get license from Hong Kong central bank

May 11, 2019

Alibaba, bigtech, China, HKMA, Ping An, Tencent

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced it’s granted banking licenses to entities associated with China’s tech giants Alibaba, Tencent as well as insurer Ping An. This gives those entities…

Reuters: China says it wants to eliminate bitcoin mining

April 9, 2019

bitcoin, China, crypto regulation

China’s state planner wants to ban bitcoin mining, according to a draft list of industrial activities the agency is seeking to stop in a sign of growing government pressure on…

China Daily: PBOC unveils fintech development plan

March 11, 2019

artificial intelligence, China, credit risk, Data, machine learning, PBOC, suptech

China will roll out a fintech development plan and apply the technology more widely to better serve its real economy, said Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of…

MIT Tech Review: don’t fear China’s AI revolution, copy it

February 24, 2019

artificial intelligence, China, MIT Technology Review

China is now embarking on an unprecedented effort to master artificial intelligence. Its government is planning to pour hundreds of billions of yuan (tens of billions of dollars) into the…

BI: Trump’s AI executive order gets a “show me the money”

February 12, 2019

artificial intelligence, China, Executive Order, Trump

To address concerns of China’s scientific and commercial advance of artificial intelligence and American competitiveness, US president Donald Trump yesterday announced a new executive order for a national strategy called…

Tradeweb platform posts record January at $624.5bn yoy

February 11, 2019

China, credit, derivatives, ETFs, MBS, Repo, Tradeweb, trading platforms

While growth was broad-based across all asset classes traded on the Tradeweb platform, some of the sharpest gains were noted in investment grade and high-yield US credit, mortgage-backed securities, and…

Wharton: AI head at J.P. Morgan talks about bank’s initiatives

February 7, 2019

artificial intelligence, China, insurance, J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan hired Apoorv Saxena in August 2018 as its global head of AI and machine-learning services based in San Mateo, Calif, where he also oversees asset and wealth management…

WeBank and Singapore university partner on advanced tech in banking

January 31, 2019

artificial intelligence, China, robo-advisors, Singapore, WeBank

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and WeBank, China’s first digital-only bank, are setting up a fintech research center to support “Banking 4.0”. While most banking services can be done…

IHS Markit and Chinese fintech team up on bond market price discovery

January 29, 2019

China, Hundsun Technologies, IHS Markit

IHS Markit announced it signed a memorandum of collaboration (MoC) with Hundsun Technologies, a supplier of financial software and network services in China, to explore joint development of bookbuilding solutions…

MIT TR: how China’s AI industry is propped up by its 3 tech giants

January 25, 2019

Alibaba, artificial intelligence, Baidu, China, Tencent

Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, the three Chinese tech giants loosely equivalent to Google, Amazon, and Facebook, are not just developing and deploying AI themselves. Their deep pockets have also funded…

Chinese fintech lender picks Baidu-Citic digital custodian

January 10, 2019

Baidu, China, Custodians, electronification, X Financial

X Financial, a digital personal finance company in China, announced that it has engaged Citic AIBank as its custodian bank for its online lending platform, Xiaoying Wealth Management. AIBank’s custodian…

Could Chinese banks become an important liquidity source for Western banks? (Premium)

January 9, 2019

China, Collateral Management, Liquidity Management

Bank of China, China, collateral, ICBC, Liquidity, topstory

In recent conversations on Delta One trading for an upcoming report, we heard the idea that Chinese banks could become an important future liquidity source for Western banks. The logic…

BIS’ Carstens: big tech’s use of ML for credit scoring could disadvantage banks

January 6, 2019

Bank for International Settlements, Big Tech, China, credit, machine learning, People's Bank of China

Excerpts from speech by Agustín Carstens, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, at the FT Banking Summit, London, 4 December 2018 In contrast to banks, big tech firms…

Bundesbank’s Burkhard Balz: patience is paying off for RMB in international payments

November 28, 2018

Bundesbank, China, RMB

Burkhard Balz: The role of the renminbi in international payments Keynote speech by Mr Burkhard Balz, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the 5th European-Chinese Banking…

China and Japan are holding fewer US Treasuries. What happens next?

November 21, 2018

Asia, China, Fixed Income, Interest rates, US

China, Japan, topstory, US Treasuries

China and Japan together hold 35% of US Treasuries outstanding, according to new US Treasury data. But that figure is decreasing and there are no big buyers stepping up to…

China insurance giant Ping An plans tech R&D investment at $15bn

November 8, 2018

artificial intelligence, blockchain, China, insurance companies, Ping An

Ping An Insurance said it expects to more than double technology R&D investment over the next decade to consolidate its technology leadership in the financial services industry at the Group’s…

AI is essential to fintech existence and use – report

November 8, 2018

artificial intelligence, China, fintech, South Korea

Diplomatic Courier released a special report, published in collaboration with The Future Society, detailing proceedings from the inaugural US-China AI Tech Summit in Silicon Valley earlier this year. Fintech has…

China goes after the IMF, with impacts for global finance

November 8, 2018

China, Regulatory

China, IMF, Regulation, topstory

China wants a bigger seat at the global financial decision-making table. While this drive isn’t new, a quota review at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is one of those behind-the-scenes…

The Asset: first RMBS transactions on China blockchain

November 6, 2018

ABS, blockchain, BOCOM, China, RMBS, Securitization

China’s securitization market recently saw a landmark deal in which blockchain technology was first utilized in capital markets. China’s asset-backed securities market is Asia’s largest. The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS),…

Early AI adopters choose revenue and competition over cost savings

November 6, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Technology

Allianz, artificial intelligence, BCG, China, ING, MIT

The latest MIT Sloan Management Review just published Artificial intelligence in business gets real, which details the results of the 2018 artificial intelligence global executive study and research project in…

BBH: US/China trade war impact on securities lending

October 28, 2018

BBH, China, Securities Lending

President Donald Trump has slapped tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods this year, and Beijing has retaliated with levies of $110 billion on American products. The IMF’s projections…

GlobalCapital: China approves tri-party repo

October 21, 2018

China, Repo, tri-party

PBoC has opened the way to triparty repo in the interbank bond market, the central bank announced on October 17. “In recent years, there has been a growing and diverse…

Register: who’s telling the truth in Bloomberg’s China spy-chip report?

October 7, 2018

Amazon, Apple, AWS, Bloomberg, China, cybersecurity, hardware, Super Micro, The Register

Chinese government agents sneaked spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple, the US government, and about 30 other organizations, which included “a major bank”, giving Beijing’s snoops…

Deep learning in finance is changing geography and systemic risk (Premium)

October 3, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Technology

artificial intelligence, bigtech, California, Canada, China, London, New York, Stanford University

As the latest rounds get fought between New York and London for the coveted prize of world’s top financial center, some questions are being raised whether new technologies are changing…

SmartStream partners with distributor for China mainland data services

September 12, 2018

China, data management, SmartStream, TGT Chibo

SmartStream Technologies announced the appointment of TGT Chibo Data Service, a technology services and payment solution provider, as an official distributor partner for China’s mainland market. TGT Chibo will initially…

ABI Research: Chinese AI startups beat American peers for VC investment at $5bn in 2017

August 30, 2018

artificial intelligence, China, fundraising

Chinese AI startups raised $5 billion in venture capital funding in 2017 and overtook their US counterparts, found ABI research, an advisory firm. The overall investment values for AI startups…

China in surprise crypto ban after spending billions on promotion

August 23, 2018

China, cryptocurrencies

China has issued a ban on hosting any token-related promotions in offices or hotels, according to various media reports, some of which referenced a Tweet from Red Li, co-founder of…

China’s Ant Financial raises $14 billion from slew of domestic and foreign investors

June 11, 2018

Ant Financial, China

Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group announced it has entered into definitive agreements with investors for its Series C equity financing for some $14 billion. The financing round includes…

Reuters: Ant Financial shifts focus from finance to tech services

June 9, 2018

Ant Financial, China

Ant Financial Services Group, the dominant Chinese fintech company, is shifting its main focus to technology services and away from payments and consumer finance as Beijing’s crackdown on financial risk…

CBRC will ease caps on foreign ownership of Chinese FIs

February 26, 2018

CBRC, China

China’s banking regulator will ease caps on foreign ownership in financial asset management companies and Chinese banks (excluding private banks) and apply non-discriminatory ownership limit rules. China Banking Regulatory Commission…

ISDA updates on China’s new rules for derivatives counterparty risk

January 18, 2018

CBRC, China, derivatives rules