"...the first booking traces back to Communist China, which, in 1949, managed to move almost all of its U.S. dollars to the Soviet-owned Banque Commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord in Paris before the United States froze the remaining assets during the Korean War.[2]
In another version, the first booking traces back to the Soviet Union during the Cold War period, especially after the invasion of Hungary in 1956, as the Soviet Union feared that its deposits in North American banks would be frozen as a retaliation. It decided to move some of its holdings to the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Soviet-owned bank with a British charter..."
Сейчас мы наблюдаем возникновение тигродолларов в азиатском регионе:
"Норильский никель" в этом году перевел часть наличности в гонконгские доллары, сообщил "Интерфаксу" источник, знакомый с ситуацией"
http://www.interfax.ru/business/388878