Trading & Investment

SET Chairman Outlines Strategy to Restore Investor Confidence

10/06/2025

The strategy includes enhanced trading regulations, stronger investor protection, market development initiatives, and ESG-related measures

Credit Risk

Bangladesh Bank Relaxes Loan Rescheduling Rules for Financial Sector

10/06/2025

Bangladesh Bank eases loan rescheduling rules, aiming to support housing finance borrowers with longer repayment periods and greater flexibility.

Structural Regulation

SET Proposes Adjustments to Free Float and IPO Rules

09/06/2025

The Thai bourse aims to boost market competitiveness by easing requirements for new listings, targeting major domestic and international firms.

Trading & Investment

Taiwan Eases Foreign Securities Rules for High-Net-Worth Investors

09/06/2025

Taiwan’s FSC has relaxed age restrictions and custody rules to enable securities firms to better cater to sophisticated investors.

Anti-Bribery & Corruption

OJK Indonesia Working to Guard Against Corruption Risks

09/06/2025

Officials emphasise the implementation of anti-fraud regulations to guard against corruption. OJK itself was assessed as having low corruption risk.

Anti-Bribery & Corruption

Hong Kong ICAC Charges Former Bank RM Over Fake Credit Letters

09/06/2025

The former bank relationship manager allegedly accepted $470,000 worth of Tether as a bribe to authenticate fake standby L/Cs and collateral letters.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

Taiwan Crypto Exchange BitoPro Suffers $11.5m Hack

08/06/2025

The FSC’s Securities and Futures Bureau said Bito Group, the operator of BitoPro, must absorb the financial loss and cannot pass it on to users.

Anti-Bribery & Corruption

China Grants Additional Powers to Anti-Corruption Authority

08/06/2025

Revisions to the Supervision Law allow the anti-corruption watchdog to impose alternative measures to “retention in custody”.

Stablecoins

Stablecoin Law Sparks Mainland Interest in Using Hong Kong as Tokenisation Hub

05/06/2025

Citic Securities forecasts that Hong Kong’s stablecoin legalisation will help mainland firms push their initiatives forward and attract a tokenisation boom.