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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is the central banking institution of Hong Kong. It is a government authority founded on 1 April 1993 when the Office of the Exchange Fund and the Office of the Commissioner of Banking merged. The organisation reports directly to the Financial Secretary. [2]
In Hong Kong, HIBOR is officially called the "Hong Kong Dollar Interest Settlement Rates". It is defined in the Guide to Hong Kong Monetary, Banking and Financial Terms as "The rate of interest offered on Hong Kong dollar loans by banks in the interbank market for a specified period ranging from overnight to one year." [3] HIBOR is fixed by the ...
The Exchange Fund of Hong Kong is the primary investment arm and de facto sovereign wealth fund of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.First established in 1935 in order to provide backing to the issuance of Hong Kong dollar banknotes, over the years the role of the Fund has continually expanded to now include management of fiscal reserves, foreign currency reserves, real estate investments, and ...
More Hong Kong homebuyers are expected to shift to cheaper mortgages linked with the Hong Kong one-month interbank offered interest rate (Hibor) after all of the city's major commercial banks said ...
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage started the decade at about 7.5 percent in 1971 (the earliest year for which data is available), according to Freddie Mac. By 1979, the rate had risen to an ...
From 2002 to 2003, Lehman Brothers issued mini-bonds in Hong Kong to non-institutional investors (also known as retail clients). As the sponsor, Lehman Brothers was responsible for the design of the product and requested credit ratings from rating agencies for the assets secured in the mini-bonds (commonly known as the CDO portion).
Rising 10-year bond yields tend to be an obstacle for tech stocks. ... But as bond yields rise, the risk-free returns start to look more attractive than the distant potential profits of tech ...
By exploiting this odd shape through receiving the high rates around 'hump' and paying the low rates within the trough, The FI-RV Investor hopes to profit by waiting until the yield curve normalizes. An example of this type of distortion occurred in late 1994 and early 1995 when Alan Greenspan raised the US Fed Funds rate from 3.00% in May 1994 ...