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China’s Central Bank to Conduct 1-Year Swap Facility for Securities, Funds, Insurers on Nov 3

The People’s Bank of China will launch a securities, fund and insurance company swap facility on Nov 3 with a one-year term that can be extended as needed, to support the healthy and stable development of the capital market. Thirty-one securities and fund companies have submitted applications for the facility, with requested quotas exceeding 100 billion yuan.

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The scale of demand is the signal here: applications from 31 securities and fund firms exceeding the headline quota suggest balance-sheet liquidity tools are being treated as a genuine funding channel rather than a formality. This matters most for non-bank financial institutions — securities firms, funds and insurers — whose access to central bank liquidity has historically been narrower than banks'. Whether the facility is drawn and extended beyond its one-year term, and how requested quotas are allocated against demand, is the open question worth tracking.

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