英國成爲第二大離岸人民幣清算中心

The UK unseated the southeast Asian financial hub as the largest clearing centre for the renminbi outside of greater China in March, according to Swift’s RMB tracker. The financial transaction system’s data showed the value of UK Rmb payments rose 21 per cent year-on-year last month.

根據環球銀行金融電信協會(Swift)對人民幣的追蹤，英國在3月份取代東南亞金融中心新加坡，成爲大中華區以外人民幣最大清算中心。該金融交易系統數據顯示，上月英國的人民幣支付額度同比上升21%。

That reflects the growing dominance of China’s currency in payments between the UK and China/Hong Kong, which now accounts for 40 per cent of all payments in the corridor, followed by the Hong Kong dollar (24 per cent).

這反映了人民幣在英國和中國/香港間支付中的地位日益提高，現在佔到了雙方支付中的40%，隨後是港幣，佔比24%。

London is the world’s largest single FX-trading centre, with $2.15tn traded daily, according to the latest data from the Bank of England. The renminbi has climbed to be the eighth most-traded currency in the city, involved in 1.8 per cent of transactions – equivalent to about $39bn of deals, compared with $1.9tn for the dollar and $837bn for the euro.

倫敦是全球最大的外匯交易中心，據英國央行(Bank of England)最新數據，它的日成交額爲2.15萬億美元。人民幣已攀升至倫敦第八大交易貨幣，涉及1.8%的交易，相當於約390億美元的交易額，美元交易額爲1.9萬億美元，歐元交易額爲8370億美元。

With the UK accounting for 6.3 per cent of all offshore transactions using the Chinese currency at last count, Singapore has been bumped to third place at 4.6 per cent. But both are still leagues behind Hong Kong, which processes 72.5 per cent of all renminbi payments.

在最新統計中，英國在人民幣所有離岸交易中佔到了6.3%，將佔比4.6%的新加坡擠到了第三名。但二者仍落後於香港，香港在所有人民幣支付中佔到了72.5%。

Stephen Gilderdale, managing director for UK, Ireland and Nordics at Swift, attributed the rise to steady growth in renminbi clearance at China Construction Bank’s UK branch, which opened in June 2014.

Swift負責英國、愛爾蘭和北歐的主管斯蒂芬•吉爾德代爾(Stephen Gilderdale)將人民幣清算業務的穩步增長歸功於中國建設銀行(China Construction Bank)英國分行，該分行於2014年6月成立。