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By Rhod Mackenzie

The Bank of China (BOC), one of China's four largest state-owned commercial banks, has inaugurated its first branch in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

This move aims to extend the use of the yuan in trade and finance. Analysts have observed that since the recent BRICS Summ...

By Rhod Mackenzie

According to Liu Lin, the deputy head of the investment department of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), major issuers are trying to take advantage of the interest rate differential between China and the United States, and are therefore issuing and selling as many yuan bonds as p...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia and China began actively using the yuan in their trade in 2022. This is now undermining the US dollar's position as the world's reserve currency. This is the conclusion of a study by economists at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Historically, it takes...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The emphasis on the use of the yuan in bilateral settlements with China is inevitable, but the share of the ruble in them is also growing, the Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov told reporters in Beijing.

According to him, in bilateral agreements with China...

By Rhod Mackenzie

More than 80% of payments between the Russian Federation and China are made in national currencies, so we can declare that the de-dollarization of economic relations between the two countries has taken place, said Georgy Zinoviev, director of the first Asian department of the Rus...

By Dmitry Migunov

The transformation of the yuan into a global convertible currency ("internationalization") is in full swing. SWIFT statistics have shown that the use of the Chinese currency in international payments has increased markedly. However, the share of the yuan on a global scale so far...