The study polled 1,304 financial decision-makers at companies that do business in mainland China and companies in China that do business abroad. Among U.S. companies, 17 percent said they currently do business in RMB, a sharp increase from 9 percent the past year.
French and German companies were much more likely to use RMB (26 percent and 23 percent, respectively).
“We’re seeing a lot more interest in the RMB,” Martin Brown, executive vice president and head of large corporate banking at HSBC,” told Treasury & Risk. “People are understanding more about how the renminbi trades and the liquidity.”
