People's Bank of China denies liberalising deposit rates

China’s central bank has vowed to adopt a more market-based system for setting interest rates but has proceeded cautiously.

China's central bank on Wednesday denied a report that it has kicked off a pilot programme to liberalise bank deposit rates.

The official China Daily reported on Tuesday that China has launched a pilot programme allowing some banks, including China Merchants Bank, to set deposit rates of their choosing.

"We haven't launched such a pilot programme," a spokeswoman at the People's Bank of China told Reuters.
China Merchants Bank has also issued a notice denying its involvement in such a reform scheme.

China currently sets a ceiling on deposit rates and a floor on lending rates, with a roughly 3 percentage point gap between them, a spread that is the source of a large chunk of bank revenues.

The one exception is that China allows banks to fix rates with clients for large deposits locked up for more than five years.

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