China limits foreign ATM withdrawals

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The China shut down of fleeing capital continues, from Forexlive:

MNI reports on the latest from SAFE (State Administration of Foreign Exchange):

  • Putting a cap on annual cash withdrawals, of CNY100,000 for Chinese citizens using bank cards at overseas ATMs
  • (The current limit is CNY10,000 daily, but no annual limit)
  • China is facing pressure from capital outflows
  • The SAFE has called on banks to step up checks to limit outflows but cash withdrawals at overseas ATMs create a loophole for people to move money overseas

They’re going to shut every channel, every portal, every pipe that they can. Australia’s China property bid is in trouble.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.