State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe)
Beijing downplays hot money flows
China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange says hot money flows are “ant-like” relative to size of economy; analysts say results downplay risks of emerging markets overheating
China denies reviewing eurozone bond holdings
State Administration of Foreign Exchange dismisses reports that it is appraising euro asset holdings; follows surge in T-bill purchases last week
China to keep up T-bill purchases; cautious on gold
State Administration of Foreign Exchange chief Yi Gang says the country will not rely excessively on gold, adds that political relations with US will not affect Chinese treasury holdings
Your assets are safe, Geithner tells China
Timothy Geithner, US treasury secretary, sought to reassure the US's largest foreign creditor regarding its investments in dollar-denominated government debt.
China stockpiling gold
China has increased its gold reserves by 76% since 2003, said Hu Xiaolian, a vice president of People's Bank of China and the administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, on Friday.
Assets are better kept with SWFs
Countries with a large foreign asset base tend to establish sovereign wealth funds as central banks' portfolio diversification tends is limited, says a new paper from the San Francisco Federal Reserve.
China clamps down on hot money
The authorities in Beijing have announced new measures to curb the inflow of speculative money, which is adding to the booming economy's increasing inflation problem.
New China investment chief to be named
China is set to name a new head of the investment arm of the central bank, as it prepares to open a new agency to help manage the country's foreign currency reserves of more than $1 trillion, Reuters reported from Shanghai on Monday 26 February.
China raises renminbi value
China has raised the value of the renminbi even as its central bankers rule out major reductions in the dollar share of the country's foreign exchange reserves.
China appoints new central bank vice governor
Hu Xiaolian has been appointed vice governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC) by China's State Council, the cabinet, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
SAFE spokesman says China central bank 'sound'
The People's Bank of China is "in sound financial condition," as a result of its strategies and achievements in managing the country's foreign exchange reserves, according to a spokesman for China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) on…
Gold price soars on war talk concerns
Worries that US Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech on Iraq could be a harbinger of war sent gold soaring to a six-and-a-half year high on Wednesday as investors piled into the traditional safe haven in times of trouble.
Speech by T P Naranubala, Bank of Thailand, 4 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'The Role of Non-Bank Financial Institutions in relation to Monetary Policy' Naranubala said that the task of the central bank in monetary policy is to ensure that it sets the right policy, and that its policy is transmitted…
Speech by Ulrich Kohli, Swiss Nat Bank, 26 Feb
SPEECH - Kohli concludes in a speech titled 'Will the Euro Make the Swiss Franc Obsolete?' that as long as the SNB maintains an independent course of action, it will uphold the reputation of the Swiss franc as a safe and sound currency, and it will…
Economists say King should prepare for BoE top job
ARTICLE - Wanted from Spring 2003: a safe pair of hands to steer British monetary policy through economic storms and likely turbulence over European monetary union.
UK accused of being 'money launderers' paradise'
UK - Britain still offers a safe haven for terrorist money and the authorities are doing virtually nothing about it, according to a damning report by a French MP.
Banks in Fed talks over extended closure of market
US - Stock markets in the US will be closed today in the wake of the terrorist attacks which sent stock prices elsewhere in the world plunging and investors rushing for the safe havens of gold and government bonds.
PBOC appoints Guo Shuqing as head of forex
CHINA - The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, has appointed Guo Shuqing as one of its deputy governors and the head of the foreign exchange regulatory agency.