Earlier this year, the pieces started to fall into place for China's plan to launch domestic trading in stock index futures. Traders were able to open accounts on Feb. 22, with actual trading to begin in another two months or so.

Now, Chinese authorities are making allowances for non-Chinese investors with Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor status to trade the products.

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