BRICS officials will develop measures to reduce their reliance on the USD in trade, in favour of using local currencies.
August 28, 2023Bank Indonesia, Bank Negara Malaysia, and Bank of Thailand will strengthen cooperation to promote the use of local currencies in bilateral transactions.
August 25, 2023The RBI has asked banks to encourage clients and corporates to settle trade with the UAE using the dirham or Indian rupee.
August 22, 2023RBI authorised 20 banks to open 92 Special Rupee Vostro Accounts with various countries, aiming to simplify trade and promote more robust FX markets.
July 30, 2023CMIM guidelines were updated to allow members to provide liquidity support in their own domestic currency and the local currencies of other members.
May 5, 2023BI and BOK will enable direct exchange rate quotations between the Korean won and the Indonesian rupiah in interbank trading.
May 3, 2023Bank Indonesia also launched the "international QRIS", initially connecting to Thailand's payment system, and have a retail CBDC in the works.
August 30, 2022Domestic banks will be able to access other Asian currencies via cross-currency repo and other collateralised transactions with Bank Indonesia.
February 18, 2022