The Chi­nese cen­tral bank has is­sued a new di­rec­tive on in­ter­est rates to curb the high guar­an­teed yields of­fered by cer­tain do­mes­tic lenders on struc­tured de­posits.

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has informed commercial banks of the new “People’s Bank of China Notice Concerning the Strengthening of Deposit Interest Rate Regulation” (国人民银行关于加强存款利率管理的通知) which sets up new requirements around self-regulatory mechanisms for the market pricing of interest rates, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal me­dia re­ports. The new rules seek to strengthen self-regulatory management of deposit rates; and the inclusion of the gua

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