BANGKOK: The increased popularity of the Chinese yuan among Asean members does not mean it is anywhere close to becoming a major petrocurrency, energy analysts and economists said.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) said Singapore handled around 22 percent of its global payments in yuan last year, excluding those international payments handled by Hong Kong.

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