Cryptocurrency

NYSE Seeks Trademark Licences for Digital Marketplace

18/02/2022

A filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office suggests the NYSE may be planning to launch an NFT marketplace as well as its own cryptocurrency.

Payments & Settlements

Bangladesh Revises Rules on Mobile Financial Services

17/02/2022

The revised regulations allow financial institutions other than banks, as well as government entities, to provide mobile financial services.

Sustainable Finance

HK Government Set to Issue Inaugural Retail Green Bond

17/02/2022

Hong Kong financial secretary Paul Chan said the issuance allows residents to “directly contribute to greening Hong Kong and share the fruit of the sustainable development”.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

Splitting Chairman, MD, CEO Roles No Longer Mandatory: SEBI

17/02/2022

Only 54 percent of the listed companies in scope had complied with the rule as of end-2021, so it will instead become voluntary.

Data Privacy

Applications Open for ‘Data Specialising Institutions’ Designation: FSS

16/02/2022

Data specialising institutions are allowed to converge anonymised and pseudonymised data originating from different businesses for analytics purposes.

CBDCs

IMF Paper Offers Insights from Six CBDC Pioneer Projects

15/02/2022

A new IMF paper offers lessons on CBDCs drawn from ongoing projects in China, the Bahamas, Sweden, Uruguay, Canada and the ECCU.

Anti-Money Laundering

MAS Tables Bill to Obtain Enhanced Regulatory Powers

15/02/2022

The Financial Services and Markets Bill will give MAS enhanced regulatory powers to address misconduct, crypto asset and technology risks.

Structural Regulation

Thailand SEC Proposes Revisions to Private Placement Rules

15/02/2022

The changes streamline filing processes for offerings of newly issued shares through private placements, while bolstering investor protections.

Payments & Settlements

Capital Controls Slowing Down Cross-Border Payments: CPMI

13/02/2022

Using SWIFT gpi datasets, CPMI identified capital controls, longer bank offline hours, and batch processing as factors that slow down cross-border payments.