Bundesbank will add China's yuan to currency reserves

By Jeff Black, Stephen Engle, and Enda Curran
Bloomberg News
Monday, January 15, 2018

Germany's central bank has decided to include the Chinese yuan in its own reserves, in a further boost to the international status of the currency.

Speaking at an event in Hong Kong today, Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret said the decision was taken last year following an investment of 500 million euros ($611 million) by the European Central Bank, of which the German authority is a part. He said he wouldn't comment on the amount that would be allocated.

“The renminbi is used increasingly as part of central banks' foreign-exchange reserves -- for example, the ECB included the RMB but also other European central banks did so,” Dombret said during a speech in Hong Kong Monday.

Following the fanfare around the yuan's acceptance to the International Monetary Fund's reference basket of currencies, or Special Drawing Rights, in 2016, the march of the yuan has slowed down. With capital controls still in place, the currency backed by the world's second-largest economy has dropped to the sixth most-used worldwide from a record fourth ranking in August 2015, according to Swift data. ...

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