Chile Central Bank Expands Foreign Exchange Trading Hours

More colour from the statement on the website:

• Extends foreign exchange trading hours to promote internationalization of the Chilean peso.
• Extending trading hours, along with representing a good practice, is in line with the recent regulatory changes ordered by the Bank.
• Following January's announcement to gradually increase the International Reserves by US $ 12,000 million, the program has had an important innovation: executing foreign exchange purchase auctions at non-conventional hours.
• This is how, in recent weeks, more than 20% of the auctions have been held before 9:00 a.m. or after 1:30 p.m., at times where operations are usually more sporadic and, therefore, liquidity is lower.