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Goldman Sachs: CNY Likely To Be The Third Largest Reserve Currency By 2030

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Goldman Sachs note that "China's bond market liberalisation has accelerated over the last five years. With China now included in all three major global bond indices (FTSE WGBI due to start in October), we turn our attention to the potential increase in allocations to Chinese assets from global central bank reserves, which total around USD12tn currently."

  • "We project that the CNY share of global (ex-China) central bank reserves will rise to 6-7% over the next five years (from 3.4% as of Q121)."
  • "Combined with an assumption of 4-5% annual reserve growth, this equates to around USD400bn of cumulative CNY inflows over the next five years (even larger than our estimate of USD250bn passive inflows from bond index inclusion)."
  • "Based on these projections, we think CNY could represent around 5-6% of total central bank reserves (including China's own reserves) within the next eight years and we think CNY is likely to be the third largest reserve currency in the world by 2030."
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