Posts By Editors, Regulation Asia
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729Sri Lanka Offers Credit Support for Banks to Boost SME Lending
Editors, Regulation Asia January 18, 2020The new scheme provides risk mitigation support to banks that defer principal repayment and extend new loans for SME borrowers, including those that have defaulted.
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505Japan to Allow Regional Banks to Expand Outside Core Business
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020FSA commissioner Toshihide Endo wants struggling regional lenders to engage with customers and help them grow, as a way to boost bank profitability and regional economies.
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407Review Panel Offers Recommendations for Improving SFC Operations
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020While welcoming the SFC's front-loaded regulatory approach, the Process Review Panel says the regulator should be aware of its possible unintended effects and consider ways to minimise them.
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373SEBI Exonerates Nine in NSE ‘Dark Fibre’ Case – Reports
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020SEBI said there was no evidence to suggest the nine former and current NSE officials were involved in facilitating preferential market access for selected brokers.
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727UK Regulators Set Key LIBOR Transition Deadlines
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020Market makers have until 2 March to adopt SONIA as the market convention for issuing sterling interest rate swaps, and until Q3 to end all new issuances of LIBOR-based cash products.
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736Hong Kong, Thailand Set to Sign Cross-Border Funds Agreement
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020Hong Kong's SFC and Thailand's SEC plan to sign a mutual recognition of funds agreement within the second quarter of this year.
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1.0KHKMA Urges Family Offices to Set Up in Hong Kong
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020The HKMA has been working to enhance Hong Kong’s competitiveness as a family office hub by developing talent, enhancing investment opportunities, and outreach.
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502CBIRC to Impose New Rules on Cash Management Products
Editors, Regulation Asia January 17, 2020The rules will require banks' cash management products to invest in shorter duration assets and limit leverage to 120%, among other requirements.
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599MAS Publishes Responses to VCC Consultation Papers
Editors, Regulation Asia January 16, 2020VCCs are required to engage an Eligible Financial Institution, or EFI, to perform necessary AML/CFT checks and maintain the register of controllers, nominee directors and beneficial owners.
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477SGX Proposes Tighter Auditing, Property Valuation Standards
Editors, Regulation Asia January 16, 2020Foreign issuers may appoint foreign auditors, but an ACRA-registered firm must also serve as a joint auditor. Standards for property valuations by issuers are also being raised.
