The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China’s interbank market, increased 6.3 basis points to 1.738 percent Friday. Source: Xinhuanet
Some of the world’s biggest banks are urging a US judge not to immediately terminate the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) after a group of borrowers filed suit claiming the benchmark was the work of a “price-fixing cartel.” Source: BusinessWorld
How do you wean everyone from asset managers and traders to corporate treasurers off derivatives that are so ubiquitous, they’ve become part of the fabric of the financial system? Source: Bloomberg
Data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) covering the lead up to Friday showed that daily interbank rate was on a rising trend, sending the average near the 6.29 per cent that was last seen in April 2020. Source: Business Daily
On January 15th, the midpoint of RMB exchange rate in the interbank foreign exchange market is: 1 US dollar to RMB 6.4633, 1 euro to RMB 7.8549, and 100 yen to RMB 6.2263. Source: SMM News
