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China warns banks on OTC hedge defaults (will default on derivitives if it wants to)
reuters ^ | Sat Aug 29, 2009
Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:33:20 AM by dennisw
Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may unilaterally terminate derivative contracts with six foreign banks that provide over-the-counter commodity hedging services, a leading financial magazine said.
China's SOE regulator, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), had told the financial institutions that SOEs reserved the right to default on contracts, Caijing magazine quoted an unnamed industry source as saying.
It did not name the banks or the firms in question, but said Keith Noyes, an official with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, had confirmed he was aware of the letter to the banks. He declined to comment further to Caijing.
It also cited a SASAC official as saying that almost every SOE involved in foreign exchange or trade had some exposure to derivatives such as crude oil, non-ferrous metals, agricultural commodities, iron ore and coal, although only 31 SOEs were licensed to do so.
Nobody at SASAC was immediately available to comment on Saturday.
SASAC took over the job of overseeing SOEs' derivatives trading from the securities regulator in February after several Chinese firms reported huge losses from derivatives, and quickly tightened the rules, ordering firms to quit risky contracts and report their positions on a quarterly basis.
In January, Air China (601111.SS: Quote, Profile, Research) (0753.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), Shanghai Airlines (600591.SS: Quote, Profile, Research) and China Eastern (600115.SS: Quote, Profile, Research) reported book losses of almost $2 billion on aviation fuel hedging contracts, the official Xinhua news agency said at the time.
For more details on China's derivatives regulation, please click on: [ID:nPEK207347]
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China is not going to be played a fool like we were.
Good for them!
Instead of bailing out these criminal banksters like GWB and Obama did, we should have shown them a jail cell or the poor house.