Posts By Editors, Regulation Asia
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619Asia-PacificBangladesh Exchanges Lobby for Lower Taxes to Spur Capital Market
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019The Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges have asked for tax cuts on dividends, bonds, stock transactions, and their own income, in a bid to catalyse Bangladesh's capital markets.
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517Capital RegulationRBI Defers Mandatory Pegging of Loan Rates to External Benchmarks
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019The RBI has deferred a requirement for banks to link loan rates to external benchmarks, citing difficulties the change presents to banks' interest rate risk management.
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543Fintech / RegtechTaiwan FSC to Launch New Trading Platform for STOs
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019In new laws expected in June, the FSC will initially allow firms to offer STOs offering interest payments as with bonds, and prohibit companies from offering equity-like tokens.
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633Capital RegulationChina’s Henan Province Has an NPL Problem – Report
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019Of Henan's 93 commercial banks, 42 have high levels of nonperforming loans, a dozen of which reported an NPL ratio above 20%, 'several' as high as 40%.
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1.5KAsia-PacificASEAN Pushes for Cross-Border Settlement in Local Currencies
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019ASEAN central bankers are setting up direct settlement systems that use local currencies, in a bid to reduce transaction costs and exposures to global volatility.
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520India
RBI to Allow Non-Residents to Trade Interest Rate Derivatives
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019Under draft rules, non-resident retail investors can hedge through interest rate derivatives; non-retail investors can participate for other specified purposes.
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665ChinaOver 40 IPO Applicants Accepted for Shanghai’s New Board
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019Of the 50 listing applicants so far, 41 have been accepted and will have to through a second stage of audit and inquiry. The other 9 have been sent inquiry letters.
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1.1KJapanMerger Benefits Diminished Under Existing JPX-TOCOM Plan
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019The current plan to keep crude oil and petroleum products on TOCOM will diminish the benefits of the planned merger with JPX.
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638Big PictureSupervisors Should Avoid Fragmenting Clearing Ecosystem – Report
Editors, Regulation Asia April 8, 2019A report from the World Federation of Exchanges and Oliver Wyman urges supervisors to ensure outstanding CCP reforms are implemented in line with agreed principles to avoid fragmentation.
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602Capital RegulationSectoral CCyB May be Useful Addition to Existing Tools – BCBS Paper
Editors, Regulation Asia April 5, 2019Sectoral CCyBs increase banking system resilience at a lower cost than the Basel III CCyB, and can serve to reduce excessive credit growth and risks in targeted segments.
