Shanghai headquarters of the people's Bank of China: foreign institutions held 3.17 trillion yuan of bonds in the interbank market as of the end of April.

[Shanghai headquarters of the people's Bank of China: foreign institutions hold 3.17 trillion yuan of bonds in the interbank market as of the end of April] the headquarters of the people's Bank of China in Shanghai released a briefing on the interbank bond market in April, which shows that as of the end of April 2023, foreign institutions hold 3.17 trillion yuan of bonds in the interbank market, accounting for about 2.5 percent of the total custodian volume of the interbank bond market. From the perspective of securities, the main type of escrow securities for overseas institutions is treasury bonds, with an escrow volume of 2.12 trillion yuan, accounting for 67%, followed by policy financial debt, with an escrow volume of 690 billion yuan, accounting for 21.8%. In April, three new foreign institutions entered the interbank bond market. By the end of April, a total of 1084 overseas institutions had entered the market, of which 528 entered the market through direct investment channels, 793 entered the market through "bond access" channels, and 237 entered the market simultaneously through two channels. In April, the current bond trading volume of foreign institutions in the interbank bond market was about 1.14 trillion yuan, with an average daily trading volume of about 56.8 billion yuan.