China tightening capital controls: report
Shanghai
CHINA is tightening capital controls following a devaluation of its yuan currency, the Financial Times reported, as worries about fund outflows rise.
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange had ordered financial institutions to increase checks and boost controls on foreign exchange transactions, especially over-invoicing of exports which is used to hide capital outflows, the newspaper on Wednesday quoted unnamed sources and an internal memo as saying.
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