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ESG / Sustainability
SGX Lists First Low Carbon Index ETF Dedicated to APAC
29/09/2022
The ETF reflects the performance of nearly 200 large and mid-cap companies with low carbon characteristics in 11 markets in Asia Pacific.
Enforcement
SEC, CFTC Fine 16 Firms Over Use of Personal Devices, Chat Messaging
29/09/2022
The 16 firms agreed to pay a combined $1.82bn for failing to preserve staff communications on personal mobile devices, messaging apps and emails.
Crypto / Digital Assets
BIS Announces Successful Completion of mBridge CBDC Pilot
29/09/2022
The month-long testing phase facilitated more than 160 transfers and FX exchanges worth USD 22 million on the mBridge Ledger.
Crypto / Digital Assets
FTX Wins Auction to Buy Assets of Bankrupt Voyager Digital
29/09/2022
FTX won a “highly competitive auction process” that lasted two weeks with the “highest and best bid for its assets”, valued at just over USD 1.4 billion.
Capital / Liquidity
PBOC Raises Costs for Firms to Bet Against the Yuan
29/09/2022
The PBOC is actively discouraging currency speculation and asking banks to reintroduce a yuan fixing tool that was abandoned two years ago.
AML / KYC
CFTC Penalises Crypto Firm, Pursues First Case Against DAO
29/09/2022
Crypto firm bZeroX transferred its software protocol to a DAO and then marketed this as a way to be “enforcement-proof”.
Capital / Liquidity
New Zealand Introduce Bill to Enhance Depositor Protections
28/09/2022
The legislation will introduce a deposit protection scheme, new supervisory powers for the RBNZ, and a new accountability framework for deposit takers’ directors.
Market Infrastructure
SEBI Developing New Settlement Process for Stock Market
28/09/2022
Under the new system, funds for secondary stock market transactions would be blocked until securities settlement is done.
Crypto / Digital Assets
DBS Rolls Out Crypto Services to 100,000 More Investors
28/09/2022
Accredited wealth clients are able to trade four cryptocurrencies on DDEx – Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and XRP.
Crypto / Digital Assets
Korea FSS Finds More Suspicious Crypto-Linked FX Transactions
28/09/2022
FSS investigations have so far involved 82 corporates and 12 banks. The total value of abnormal FX transactions discovered is now $7.2bn.
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