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The premium to borrow dollars in China’s local markets has jumped over the past month, another example of the resurgent US currency’s global reach and persistent headwinds facing the yuan.China’s overnight interbank dollar lending rate hit a record 5.47% on March 29 after a steady climb, before easing to 5.42% Thursday, Bloomberg-compiled data show. That has pushed its gap with the US secured overnight financing rate, a global benchmark, to the widest since July twice in the past two weeks.The tightening supply of the US currency in China has coincided...

The Citigroup Inc (Citi) logo is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. Picture taken October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Nacho Gutiérrez-Orrantia, one of Citi's (C.N) most senior bankers in Europe, will become banking and cluster head for Europe as part of its planned restructuring, the banker told Reuters on Monday.The latest step in the bank's reorganisation was announced on Monday, with Citi's CEO, Jane Fraser, saying that "the actions we're taking to reorganize...