Tag: rupiah

The central bank said the surprise decision is a "pre-emptive" measure to keep inflation in check and to stablise the rupiah as the Iran war drags on. Exports of "strategic natural resources" will need to go through state-owned enterprises.

The central bank has tightened rules on cash purchases of foreign currency to help stabilise the rupiah; government spending in Q1 helped spur the country's strongest GDP in several years.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati has been a mainstay in the role for the majority of the last two decades; Indonesia has also recently issued a A$800m Kangaroo bond.

A rare week of good news has convinced some FX strategists to revise their forecasts, but it still makes sense to short the yuan while being prepared for moves in sterling and the US dollar

Poor FX risk management led to American companies losing an estimated $20 billion in the fourth quarter in 2018. Are you hedging your FX exposures in Asia correctly?

Bank Indonesia has said that it will intervene in the FX market to stop dangerous levels of appreciation after passage of a tax amnesty law.

*HKMA launches infrastructure financing unit *Indonesia central bank to intervene in FX market *Korea offers tax perks to reshoring companies

The UK’s surprise decision to leave the European Union sparked panic, but FX experts CT talked to think things are returning to business as usual.

Jatin Brahmecha, CFO of Godrej (Indonesia), discusses how he effectively manages relationships in Indonesia with global and local banks, and what CFOs market should know about working in this emerging market.

China's Central Leading Group for Deepening Overall reform signaled a long-term plan for the 'negative list' policy in regulating foreign companies; Direct rupiah-RMB transactions proposed for China-Indonesia trade; Compliance rules released on Malaysia-US agreement on FATCA

The rupiah’s 17-year low against the US dollar is placing great pressure on Indonesian companies, notably property developers, who need to pay off their FX debt, credit agencies are warning. Many are also painfully under-hedged, they added.

David Widianto, head of treasury and finance at Indonesia’s infrastructure financier on managing liquidity and fund-raising.