Guotai Haitong Wins 10B Yuan in PBOC’s Third SFISF Operation at 10bp

The scale of this third allotment relative to Guotai Haitong's earlier wins suggests the SFISF is moving from a pilot-style liquidity backstop into a more material funding channel for broker balance sheets, with a 10bp rate that makes leveraged equity exposure cheap by design. The fact that prior quotas were fully deployed into A-shares and equity ETFs — and that the broker pioneered the bond-repo-to-equity route — makes it a template other institutions may study, which matters for how much of the facility's capacity actually reaches the cash market. Whether subsequent operations keep scaling, and whether other participants replicate the repo-financed structure, is the open question.