Offshore
Cross-currency letters of credit gaining popularity in Asia
Divergent central bank policies see CNH LCs increasingly used to cover USD invoices
Foreign banks set to boost onshore Korean won trading
Plans for longer trading hours and more open interbank FX market will stoke KRW hedging demand
Fortunes of VAR: dealers decry effect of war on risk models
European banks with large Russian derivatives exposures face risk of backtesting exceptions – and higher capital requirements
Russian ruble trading steps back in time
Wild spread swings see offshore RUB market and electronic trading disappear
Foreign corporates rally round new Thai baht hedge rules
Cheaper onshore pricing draws non-Thai corporates to Bank of Thailand’s new FX hedging scheme
EU benchmark drama set for cliffhanger end
Access to key FX rates due to be decided six months before potential cut-off
Jittery ringgit spurs options growth in Malaysia
Local corporates seek new hedging tools, but longer-term options liquidity lacking
Turkey turmoil opens door to offshore NDF market
Emta openly discussing documentation for offshore lira
Market turmoil causes traders to pull back to vanilla strategies
Emerging markets spreads tighten but liquidity still patchy
NDF access will help tame rupee volatility, say dealers
Lifting of restrictions stopping Indian banks trading rupee NDFs allows RBI to intervene offshore
Seeing red over blue-chip swap in Argentina’s NDF fiasco
Emta protocol salve aside, peso settlement rate snafu is a warning for emerging market FX derivatives
India exchange to debut rupee derivatives settled in US dollar
Launch of onshore futures and options unlikely to dent offshore volumes, though
RBI forms task force on offshore rupee
Task force will examine the effects of the offshore market on exchange rates and domestic liquidity
CNH trading in London on the up in Q3
Amidst geopolitical tension,s offshore renminbi trading increased by double digits in Q3
WM/Reuters Thai baht benchmarks to be sourced from Matching Clob
The baht benchmarks are now based on trade data rather than indicative rates
Bundesbank to include renminbi in reserves
Onshore renminbi jumps to strongest level against the dollar for more than two years, following comment from Germany’s central bank
China reportedly tweaks yuan fix
Markets reacted by selling the yuan, which fell 0.5% against the US dollar to 6.5291 from 6.4968 on Tuesday – its biggest drop in two months
Matherne joins BNY Mellon as global head of FX forwards
Paul Matherne is the latest staffer to make the switch from Deutsche Bank to BNY Mellon
PBoC scraps reserve requirements as capital flows ease
Renminbi slides against dollar as Chinese central bank reversed two measures it put in place to fight speculation
FTSE Cürex index series adds CNH pairs
The jointly launched foreign exchange index series announced in June has added seven new offshore renminbi pairs to its benchmark as it anticipates growing demand from its clients in Asia
FX Week China: RMB internationalisation will take time
Significant progress has been made since 2010 in opening up renminbi to international participants, but it has to be done gradually, say speakers at FX Week China