SAFE checks on banks’ forex trading
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CHINA’S top foreign-exchange regulator has started compliance checks of foreign-currency transactions involving the country’s biggest lenders as it continues to try to contain risks in cross-border capital flows, a statement said yesterday.
The checks, expected to last until the end of May, will cover the country’s top-four lenders — the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank and the Bank of China — as well as the Bank of Communications, China CITIC Bank and China Merchants Bank, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said yesterday.
Banks will have about a month to conduct self-inspection under supervision of the regulator before spot investigation starts in mid-February.
Banks are expected to correct irregularities starting in mid-March.
“The main purpose is to look for prominent problems and potential risks in banks’ foreign exchange business, and identify their weakness in complying with regulations,” the statement said.
SAFE’s move is part of efforts to curb speculative money flows as China gradually widens its financial markets and promotes the use of the yuan in cross-border trade and investment.
Meanwhile, authorities are also studying possibilities to liberalize foreign exchange transactions in Shanghai’s free trade zone by using a special bank account opened in the zone, 21st Century Business Herald reported yesterday, citing unidentified central bank and foreign exchange authority officials.
The special FT bank accounts allow free cross-border yuan flow to support trade and invest directly within the FTZ.
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