PBOC to establish securities, funds to aid capital market stability

People’s Bank of China will establish a SFISE (security, funds and insurance companies swap facility) for 500bn yuan.

To build capital market stability.

Those security, funds and insurance companies eligible can pledge assets such as bonds, stock ETFs, and CSI300 stocks. They’ll receive liquidity from the
PBOC to boost their capacity to access funds, increase
equity holdings.

At the margin a positive for stocks and markets in the country more generally.

Pan Gongsheng, People’s Bank of China governor

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.