Trading Offshore Chinese Yuan? Try Vancouver

The Michael Shearin Group Morgan Stanley Paris Deals Trading Offshore Chinese Yuan? Try Vancouver Major financial centers around the world are jostling for position in the list of offshore Chinese yuan trading hubs. Hong Kong and London stand out. Luxembourg wants a piece of the action, as do Paris and Frankfurt. Prepare to add an unlikely new name to the list: Vancouver. That’s the city that ranks 17th in the Global Financial Centres Index, in a country that snags a tiddly 1% of global foreign-exchange trading flows, according to the BIS. (New York handles almost 19% of FX flows. London proudly snags about 41%.)