10月8日，人民银行人民币跨境支付系统（Cross-borderInterbank Payment System，简称CIPS）正式上线，中国银行悉尼分行成功叙做了CIPS系统的首笔业务。

CIPS系统于当日北京时间上午9点正式运行。中国银行悉尼分行率先将澳大利亚某公司业务款项3700.84万元人民币直接汇至境内,成功叙做CIPS系统的首笔业务。这是中国银行悉尼分行继去年被中国人民银行指定为南半球首家人民币清算行后，借助中银集团的整体优势，再次参与并见证了人民币国际化进程中又一里程碑式的时刻！

中国银行悉尼分行自今年2月9日启动人民币清算行服务以来，人民币清算业务继续保持快速增长。上半年，中国银行悉尼分行共办理人民币清算业务接近2万亿元，市场份额45%，继续保持市场第一。为当地金融同业及公司客户提供贸易类、服务类及投资类的跨境人民币清算服务，客户群体广泛，产品种类多样。本次CIPS首笔业务的成功叙做，再次体现了中国银行悉尼分行在当地人民币业务综合服务能力，同时也证明了澳大利亚已成为全球人民币清算网络布局中的重要环节。

放眼未来，中国银行悉尼分行将继续加大投入，借助自身优势和CIPS系统搭建的清算网络，为本地银行和客户提供更丰富、更优质的人民币服务，推动澳大利亚人民币业务发展。

Bank of China Sydney Branch successfully processed the first CIPS cross-borderRMB transaction

The People’s Bank of China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (“CIPS”) went live on 8^th October 2015. Bank of China processed the first Renminbi(“RMB”) transaction in the new system initiated by its Sydney Branch.

CIPS commenced operation as from 9 am Beijing time on that day. Bank of China Sydney Branch(“BOCS”) took the lead in processing through CIPS the payment worth RMB 37.0084million for one Australian company to China. The transaction witnessed anothermilestone in the internationalisation of the RMB leveraged by Bank of China’s overall network superiority in global RMB clearing following the official appointment by the People’s Bank of China (“PBOC”) of BOCS as the first RMB Clearing Bank in the Southern Hemisphere.

Since the inauguration of RMB clearing bank service on February 9^th this year, BOCS has posted rapid growth in its RMB clearing business. For the first half of 2015, BOC has cleared a total of roughly 2 trillion RMB, continuing its market leadership with a market share of 45%. BOCS is now capable of providing to its customers a wide range of cross-border RMB clearing services and products related to trade finance, service and investment. With BOCS processing the first batch of CIPS cross-border RMB transaction, the Bank has demonstrated its RMB clearing capability again. It also serves to illustrate Australia’s strategic importance as part ofthe global RMB clearing network.

Going forward, BOCS will continue to step up its efforts to provide more and better services and products to meet the needs of local financial institutions and customers through its own superiority and the clearing network of CIPS, with an aim to ultimately promote the expansion of RMB business in Australia.