RMB Market Insights
RMB is definitively growing…
+
143%
in payments
volume
+ 251%
in payments
value
+ 8 positions
as world payments
currency (most notably
passing NZD and already in
2013 RUB)
RMB
Since
Jan
2012
+ 24%
Countries
with in/out
payments
(90)
+ 59%
Financial
Institutions
(1096)
Payments value (MT103 and MT202 excl. COV) weight
Source: SWIFT Watch
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You wonder what are the most recent trends in RMB?
The RMB Market Insights is your best source of information !!
 Quarterly in-depth analyses into the SWIFT monthly RMB transactions
 Excludes the traffic of Central Banks
 Last 5 quarters in volume and value by market
 13 tables and 19 charts on:
All markets (Payments, Trade Finance, Forex and Securities)
Currencies rank and evolution
RMB transactions by country
RMB transactions by message type
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RMB’s activity share per market
Graph extract
RMB Activity share evolution
% activity share*
0.8
0.7
0.6
Number of
transactions
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12 Apr 12 May 12 Jun 12 Jul 12 Aug 12 Sept 12 Oct 12 Nov 12 Dec 12 Jan 13 Feb 13 Mar 13
Payments
Securities
Trade Finance
Treasury
% activity share
Transaction
value
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12 Apr 12 May 12 Jun 12 Jul 12 Aug 12 Sept 12 Oct 12 Nov 12 Dec 12 Jan 13 Feb 13 Mar 13
RMB’s position per market
Table extract
RMB’s position in Payments
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Graph extract
RMB’s evolution with Hong Kong & China
Hong Kong
RMB sent and received in Payments
China
Sent
220,000
Other countries
200,000
180,000
74,446
160,000
59,228
140,000
49,561
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
38,620
34,892
120,000
24,789
3,497
67,007
28,222
4,591
84,682
4,792
30,943
38,988
42,495
4,574
5,009
101,728
92,898
93,728
May 12
Jun 12
Jul 12
5,013
5,462
48,667
4,517
51,682
48,134
5,078
4,282
49,192
4,947
5,035
53,980
7,014
4,689
3,922
98,538
78,176
106,993
100,694
93,749
Aug 12
Sept 12
Oct 12
108,378
102,322
Nov 12
Dec 12
116,361
128,164
96,698
20,000
0
Jan 12
Feb 12
Mar 12
Apr 12
Jan 13
Feb 13
Mar 13
Received
220,000
200,000
36,309
180,000
25,836
160,000
140,000
120,000
13,280
7,844
100,000
80,000
40,000
14,337
8,162
11,564
6,992
60,000
76,737
96,371
17,872
10,337
15,922
8,890
113,410
17,271
9,442
18,745
9,883
117,152
109,747
112,604
May 12
Jun 12
Jul 12
90,542
21,877
11,314
21,331
9,780
20,725
9,686
128,825
122,767
115,754
Aug 12
Sept 12
Oct 12
21,785
10,515
22,133
9,568
132,838
124,848
Nov 12
Dec 12
10,155
16,233
24,866
10,326
157,082
144,545
120,175
20,000
0
Jan 12
Feb 12
Mar 12
Apr 12
Jan 13
Feb 13
Mar 13
Top 20 countries sending & receiving RMB
per market
Table extract
RMB sent and received in Payments
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Main RMB currency pairs
CNY Buying
34 currencies
CNY - USD
CNY - EUR
CNY - JPY
CNY - HKD
CNY - GBP
CNY - RUB
CNY - AUD
CNY - CAD
CNY - CHF
CNY - MYR
CNY - SGD
CNY - PLN
CNY - THB
CNY - SEK
CNY - MOP
CNY - ZAR
CNY - NZD
CNY - VND
CNY - CNY
CNY - DKK
CNY - CZK
CNY - NOK
CNY - MXN
CNY - IDR
CNY - ILS
CNY - HUF
CNY - TRY
CNY - LAK
CNY - UAH
CNY - KRW
CNY - INR
CNY - KZT
CNY - IRR
CNY - BRL
Grand Total
# Messages sent
Total #
Cumulative
Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Messages sent
share
245,884 269,143 267,984 269,722 323,702
1,376,435
91.1%
8,182
9,329 10,663 10,632 12,433
51,239
94.5%
5,660
6,564 10,612 10,494 12,962
46,292
97.6%
2,698
2,780
3,399
4,156
3,812
16,845
98.7%
642
542
811
851
993
3,839
99.0%
319
464
641
790
769
2,983
99.2%
485
744
721
704
831
3,485
99.4%
599
573
433
494
459
2,558
99.6%
251
259
326
385
569
1,790
99.7%
85
138
216
276
245
960
99.8%
185
231
244
222
284
1,166
99.8%
47
64
137
101
125
474
99.9%
306
31
112
87
64
600
99.9%
53
80
97
82
93
405
99.9%
70
41
26
65
74
276
100.0%
12
18
31
53
36
150
100.0%
63
70
73
45
49
300
100.0%
5
45
26
76
100.0%
6
8
25
16
55
100.0%
7
3
9
17
20
56
100.0%
1
6
1
8
100.0%
5
3
3
3
4
18
100.0%
1
1
100.0%
6
2
2
1
11
22
100.0%
1
1
100.0%
2
2
100.0%
1
1
100.0%
1
1
100.0%
3
2
1
6
100.0%
6
3
9
100.0%
1
1
100.0%
1
1
100.0%
24
24
100.0%
1
1
2
100.0%
265,600 291,091 296,595 299,239 357,556
1,510,081
100%
Table extract
91% against
USD
RMB transactions by message type
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