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A new pilot scheme to allow Chinese banks to trade government bond futures is a very healthy step in the right direction towards fully liberalising the market and allowing foreign investors to finally tap it, experts believe.

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China's largest lender has sold the first green bond dedicated to green development in the Greater Bay Area. Similar bonds are expected in the future.

Even though there are no unified standards in Asia, companies like ICBC and Korea Electric Power Corporation are issuing green debt.

Chinese banks are expected to issue almost $21 billion in perpetual bonds this year. This will have a marked knock-on effect in the international capital markets.

Huge issuance requirements combined with a small international investor base pose unique challenges for China’s big four banks as they gear up to raise billions of dollars of capital.

As it finally starts to sort out its competing investment banking arms, Bank of China signals its intention to become a more formidable force across Asia

Total Loss Absorbing Capacity requirements are likely to cause China’s Big Four banks to issue billions of dollars of bonds overseas, and expand the non-bank institutional investor base for China’s domestic bond market.