UK BoE consumer credit, July: £2.006bn (consensus £1.8bn). June revised to £1.865bn from £1.807bn.

CSI 300 index futures (IF) main contract down 0.05% at the morning open; SSE 50 index futures (IH) main contract down 0.08%; CSI 500 index futures (IC) main contract up 0.04%; CSI 1000 index futures (IM) main contract down 0.07%.

Hangzhou's draft 15th Five-Year Plan for financial development, published for comment, calls for leveraging capital-market reform to expand high-quality financial service clusters and develop securities, futures, fund management, valuation and accounting, fund-rating, money-broking and advisory/info-service firms while attracting accounting, legal and asset-appraisal intermediaries and allowing credit rating agencies to set up locally. The plan explicitly supports mergers and restructurings of securities firms to build first-class investment banks and institutions, urges securities firms in Hangzhou to strengthen internal controls and professional standards, and directs large state-owned commercial banks to bolster service to the real economy while pushing insurers to specialize and insurance intermediaries toward quality-over-scale consolidation.