Asia-Pacific: China’s QFIIs: What not to expect

Author: | Published: 31 May 2012

The Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) this month revealed it could ease Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) license restrictions to open up the programme to smaller financial firms.

The announcement was followed this week by a statement from China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange in which the foreign exchange regulator said it would begin to approve QFII quotas faster and and coincided with an expansion of QFII quotas from Rmb30 billion yuan ($4.74 billion) to Rmb80 billion in April.

It's all part of the regulators efforts to attract...