PBOC Broadens Scope of Investors Allowed into Interbank Bond Market

(Beijing) – The central bank has taken another step toward broadening the scope of investors in the interbank bond market, granting direct access to all bank wealth management products, housing provident funds, pension funds and charities.

Experts say this will bring in huge amounts of extra capital to the market, where most of the country's bonds – worth a combined 35 trillion yuan as of January – were issued and traded. The move is also expected to make the wealth management industry more transparent because more institutions can now buy bonds directly instead of working through intermediaries.