The Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the premier international energy futures and commodities exchange in the Middle East, has announced signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bank of China to strengthen their cooperation in offering innovative finance solutions to their mutual customers.
As one of the world’s leading financial institutions, the Bank of China and the commodities exchange will cooperate to examine the feasibility of creating new financial products together and will explore new financing solutions to support their mutual customers in the Middle East and Asian markets, DME announced on its official website, adding that the two institutions will promote the development of close links between the financial and trading communities in Dubai and China.
It is worth mentioning that the Bank of China established a subsidiary, Bank of China Middle East Limited, in Dubai, in 2012 in order to provide services to the growing business links between the UAE and China.
Moreover, DME’s Oman crude oil futures contract is heavily used by energy companies across Asia to manage their price risk and to procure physical crude oil supplies.
Commenting on the agreement DME CEO Christopher Fix said: “This MoU with Bank of China reflects DME’s determination to develop additional products and services that can benefit our growing customer base in Asia. DME is proud to be working with such a prestigious partner as Bank of China and we are excited about the opportunities that will follow from this initial agreement.”
Chu Furong, Executive Manager, Financial Institutions in Bank of China, also commented saying that “Bank of China is pleased to be working closely with DME to develop solutions that can benefit our mutual customers. Both Bank of China and DME are well placed to build on the recent strong growth in trading activity between Middle East and Asia and we look forward to further beneficial cooperation.”
As one of the world’s leading financial institutions, the Bank of China and the commodities exchange will cooperate to examine the feasibility of creating new financial products together and will explore new financing solutions to support their mutual customers in the Middle East and Asian markets, DME announced on its official website, adding that the two institutions will promote the development of close links between the financial and trading communities in Dubai and China.
It is worth mentioning that the Bank of China established a subsidiary, Bank of China Middle East Limited, in Dubai, in 2012 in order to provide services to the growing business links between the UAE and China.
Moreover, DME’s Oman crude oil futures contract is heavily used by energy companies across Asia to manage their price risk and to procure physical crude oil supplies.
Commenting on the agreement DME CEO Christopher Fix said: “This MoU with Bank of China reflects DME’s determination to develop additional products and services that can benefit our growing customer base in Asia. DME is proud to be working with such a prestigious partner as Bank of China and we are excited about the opportunities that will follow from this initial agreement.”
Chu Furong, Executive Manager, Financial Institutions in Bank of China, also commented saying that “Bank of China is pleased to be working closely with DME to develop solutions that can benefit our mutual customers. Both Bank of China and DME are well placed to build on the recent strong growth in trading activity between Middle East and Asia and we look forward to further beneficial cooperation.”
Source:
Mubasher
