{"id":286048,"date":"2026-01-15T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/286048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:34:07","slug":"minimum-margin-ratios-increase-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/286048\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum margin ratios increase in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese exchanges have reinstated a 100% minimum margin ratio requirements for leveraged securities trading.<\/p>\n<p>The requirement was reduced to 80% in June 2023, boosting margin trading and transaction volumes. As activity and liquidity in the margin trading market has increased, and in line with counter-cyclical adjustment arrangements, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved a return to the 100% ratio for new contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding margin contracts and their rollovers will retain the 80% requirement.<\/p>\n<p>This change will reduce leverage levels and safeguard investor rights and interests, the Shanghai Stock Exchange noted, while encouraging stable market momentum.<\/p>\n<p>According to CEIC data, margin transactions at the Shanghai Stock Exchange reached a peak of RMB 1.34 trillion (US$192 billion) outstanding on 14 January. An all-time record high of RMB 1.5 trillion (US$215 billion) was recorded on 18 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, exchanges spoke to regulators about limiting colocation services in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltrading.net\/china-hft-crackdown-accelerates-with-potential-co-location-limits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>READ MORE: China HFT crackdown accelerates with potential co-location limits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese exchanges have reinstated a 100% minimum margin ratio requirements for leveraged securities trading. The requirement was reduced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-286048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115900086336841720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}