[ T H O U G H T
a long-established and leading
provider of information about the
region — now offers wider, deeper
and fully integrated coverage to
help support decisions and realise
the opportunities using China
market data.
The key gateway for those
looking to make investments and
assess opportunities is the China
Foreign Exchange Trading System
(CFETS). Also known as the Na-
tional Interbank Funding Centre, it
is directly affiliated to the People’s
Bank of China.
Despite its name, CFETS extends
well beyond FX to support money,
bond and derivatives markets
trading.
Its services cover issuance, trades,
post-trade processing and bench-
marks. CFETS also provides vital
information ranging from trade
L E A D E R S H I P
reports and benchmark prices to
yield curves, indices and valuations.
Essentially, whether new to
China, building an existing position
in the region, or a Chinese company
looking to invest abroad, firms will
rely on CFETS and related content
to trade, mark to market and invest,
as well as to manage portfolios and
risk.
Using China market data
It’s clearly vital to not only assim-
ilate all the pricing information
that CFETS generates, but also to
look at the wider economic and
event-driven factors that lie behind
and influence those prices.
As well as providing real-time
and historical data on asset classes
and their derivatives, Refinitiv
offers related content on individual
companies, M&A activity and the
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Chinese economy.
Investors can also draw on our
comprehensive information on
company ownership, and individual
officers and directors, as well as up-
to-the minute and archived news
coverage.
All these data sets can be accessed
through Refinitiv’s Eikon platform
or other ‘data feeds’.
Content can be searched and read
online, or fed directly into trading
systems. Fir’s can create greater
value from data feeds by generating
their own analytics or using those
available to drive better decision
making.
As inbound and outbound invest-
ment grows — and trading strat-
egies evolve — the importance of
partnership between investors and
firms holding data and analytics
will only increase.
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