International and Emerging Markets Blog
Friday, January 20, 2012
| Posted by: Nick Farr
Categories:
China
| Tags: China,
renminbi,
London trading hub for yuan,
Dim Sum bonds,
European RMB trading,
City of London to trade renminbi,
yuan trading,
RMB trading,
Chinese UK investment,
UK trade with China,
UK Chinese trade,
Chinese banks

I appeared this week on Jeff Randall’s Sky News show in an interview about George Osborne’s recent deal to allow banks in the City of London to trade renminbi (RMB). This deal is a potential game-changer for the UK’s trade relations with China. Find out how this deal can benefit UK businesses…
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China
| Tags: China,
UK,
infrastructure,
trade,
regulation,
Nick Farr,
London,
financing,
Chinese,
banks,
renminbi,
caps,
deregulation,
Infrastructure Summit,
subsidiaries
As Chinese banks gain a foothold in the City, this is creating opportunities for financing UK infrastructure and regeneration projects, says Nick Farr, Head of Grant Thornton’s China Britain Services Group.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Brazil,
China ,
India
| Tags: statistics,
China,
GDP,
inflation,
Economist,
conference,
BRIC,
High Growth Markets Summit,
Jim O'Neill,
Indonesia,
renminbi,
Turkey,
Korea,
Mexico,
emerging economies,
investment banks,
BRICs,
Growth 8,
keynote

The Economist’s High-Growth Markets conference, held in London in September, closed with a view of how the world’s most powerful emerging economies are set to change the global economic landscape in the next decade. So who are the ‘Growth 8’ and what other trends are important to note?
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