People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng met nine counterparts on the sidelines of the annual meetings in Bangkok from October 14 to 16: the governors of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Australia, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria and Georgia, the central bank said. The published account records exchanges on the global economy and deeper bilateral financial cooperation, with Deputy Governor Xuan Changneng also attending, and carries no policy commitments, swap renewals or rate content. It is the attendance map of China’s bilateral week, not a policy event.
The Bank of Japan published the summary of its October meeting on market operations, held on October 14 with its market counterparties. The document is an outline only: remarks by the director general of the Financial Markets Department and presentations on recent market operations, liquidity and functioning in the JGB market, and the August 2026 Tokyo money market survey. It contains no new purchase amounts and no change to the bank’s reduced JGB buying path, and it was already noted in yesterday’s roundup.
One pool item needs a date correction. The memorandum of cooperation between Japan’s Ministry of Finance and Bank Negara Malaysia on promoting settlement in local currencies, which resurfaced in the feed pool on October 17, was signed on September 15, 2026, according to both authorities, alongside the third Japan and Malaysia bilateral swap arrangement of up to 6 billion dollars effective September 18. It is not a Bangkok week development and is not reported as one.
Ahead, the Bank of Canada publishes its third quarter Business Outlook Survey and Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations on Monday, October 19, the last survey input before its October 28 decision, and India’s sovereign gold bond Series VII premature redemption falls due the same day at the price of 14,614 rupees set on October 16. Japan’s next Treasury discount bill auction is on October 23.