Fears over Shibor manipulation slow China IRS market

Market players express doubts over accuracy of quotation system and instead prefer to use repo rates

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Concerns over the accuracy of the Shanghai interbank offered rate (Shibor) are deterring dealers from trading interest rate swaps based off the benchmark and instead they say repo figures are a more reliable measure of actual market costs.

The Shibor lending rate was introduced in 2007 with the aim of establishing a market-based benchmark and is derived in a similar manner to the London interbank offered rate. Like Libor, it is calculated from rates quoted by 18 banks eliminating the four

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