China a Step Closer to Unifying $20tn Bond Market

China’s central bank and top securities regulator approved a new set of rules designed to further connect the country’s two bond markets by establishing a mechanism that allows investors from one to trade on the other, Caixin Global reported.

The measures for connecting the interbank and exchange bond markets mark the latest move in the nation’s years-long push to unify its fragmented $20 trillion bond markets, whose different rules have added to the red tape for traders, the report added.

Read the full report: Caixin Global.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.