Posts By Editors, Regulation Asia
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596WEF Announces Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance
Editors, Regulation Asia January 28, 2020The consortium aims to address regulatory fragmentation and increase access to the financial system through innovative policy solutions for digital currencies.
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662Australia to Decide on Removal of ‘Conflicted’ Stamping Fees
Editors, Regulation Asia January 28, 2020Fund managers have been paying 'conflicted' up-front commissions to financial advisers and brokers under a 2014 exemption, which ASIC says has resulted in worse investment returns.
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854BSE India Signs Licensing Agreement with ICE Futures Europe
Editors, Regulation Asia January 28, 2020BSE India is using the ICE Brent Index as the final settlement price for its new rupee-denominated Brent futures contract, which launched on Tuesday.
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434SEBI Prescribes New Margin Framework or Commodity Derivatives
Editors, Regulation Asia January 28, 2020Clearing corporations are asked to categories commodity derivatives as low, medium and high risk, and to set new IM and MPOR floors.
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537Japan Banks to Hold More Capital Against Partner Relationships – Report
Editors, Regulation Asia January 27, 2020Higher capital requirements could accelerate the unwinding of cross-shareholdings, a Japanese practice of owning shares in business partners.
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1.0KKRX to Cap KOSPI 200 Single Stock Weighting at 30pc
Editors, Regulation Asia January 27, 2020Institutional investors who mirror the KOSPI 200 index may need to offload an estimated 500-800bn won worth of Samsung Electronics shares to rebalance their portfolios.
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603NAB Units Face Class Action for Mismanaged Superannuation
Editors, Regulation Asia January 27, 2020The case will focus on NAB's alleged failure to transfer A$6.3mn of accrued default amounts to MySuper in a timely fashion, as required by law.
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1.0KFSS Korea to Reorganise Consumer Protection Department
Editors, Regulation Asia January 24, 2020The FSS will reorganise its consumer protection department to boost supervision of high-risk financial products, and establish suptech and regtech teams.
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1.4KAustralia Considers Opening ‘Write’ Access Under Open Banking
Editors, Regulation Asia January 24, 2020The government will consider expanding the consumer data right to allow 'write' access by entities other than banks, similar to how the EU's PSD2 operates.
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467RBI Eases Limits on FPI Investment in Debt Securities
Editors, Regulation Asia January 24, 2020RBI has re-opened the 'voluntary retention route' for FPI investments in debt, doubling the investment cap. Short-term investment limits have also been eased.
