Qualified foreign investors can lend out and borrow stock holdings to enable their use in short-selling, and trade equity index futures on the CFFEX.
November 2, 2020The move to combine the QFII and RQFII into a single 'qualified foreign investor' regime is aimed at further easing foreign access to China's capital markets.
September 28, 2020The PBOC and SAFE are consulting on new rules that will reduce restrictions on outward remittances for institutional investors, among other rule changes.
September 24, 2020The scope of investment products foreign investors can trade via Stock Connect will be expanded, among other reforms, said the CSRC's Fang Xinghai.
September 7, 2020Starting 1 September, foreign institutional investors and QFII/RQFII participants can trade in China's interbank bond market on a trial basis.
August 24, 2020PBOC governor Yi Gang says China will continue to open up its financial sector in line with the phase one trade deal signed with the US in January.
August 12, 2020The pace of opening up China's capital market has further accelerated, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, CSRC chairman Yi Huiman said at the 12th Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai on Thursday.
June 22, 2020The CFFEX is calling for research into the opening up of its financial futures market to foreign investors, drawing lessons from overseas exchanges.
May 31, 2020China has scrapped the quota of its two leading inbound investment programmes, but the move appears unlikely to give its onshore capital markets a shot in the arm.
May 14, 2020QFII and RQFII investors will merely need to go through a registration process to invest in China. Requirements on outbound remittances and currency exchange have also been simplified.
May 8, 2020