Fintech / Regtech

Singapore Streamlines Payment Firms’ Access to Legal Services

09/09/2019

The initiative will help connect the payments industry with specialist law firms through a streamlined process to help them comply with the new Payment Services Act.

Capital / Liquidity

PBOC Announces Third RRR Cut of 2019

09/09/2019

The cut is expected to free up 900 billion yuan in banking system liquidity for use in small and private enterprise lending.

RBI Mandates External Benchmarking for Loans from October

09/09/2019

Banks must link interest rates for retail and micro and small enterprise loans to the RBI’s benchmark repo rate, the 3- or 6-month treasury yield, or any other FIBIL benchmark.

Securities / Derivatives

SAFE Approves Three Brokers for Interbank FX Trading

09/09/2019

Citic Securities, Huatai Securities and China Merchants Securities are allowed to conduct interbank forex business both on a proprietary basis and on behalf of clients.

Securities / Derivatives

HKEX Recovers from Derivatives Market Outage

06/09/2019

Derivatives trading was suspended on Thursday due to software issues in HKEX’s vendor supplied trading system, which “have now been isolated”.

Market Infrastructure

China P2P Lenders Ordered to Share Data with Credit Bureaus

06/09/2019

The move is part of a broader crackdown on irregular practices and risks in the P2P sector, and will provide greater protection to investors in online lending platforms.

Securities / Derivatives

FSC Korea to Ease Major Shareholder Notification Rule

06/09/2019

Institutional investors will be exempt from disclosing major shareholding changes when exercising their rights to remove law-breaking executives or to push for improved governance.

Securities / Derivatives

RBI Task Force Urges Development of Secondary Market for Loans

05/09/2019

The task force recommends easing rules for loan asset securitisation, and to allow secondary market participation from funds and insurers.

Market Infrastructure

Thailand to Digitise Capital Market Processes with DLT

05/09/2019

The project aims to reduce the documentary procedures required in processes related to share issuances and offerings, securities registration, settlement and delivery, and KYC.