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Fintech / Regtech
FSB Finalises Third-Party Risk Management Toolkit
By Editors | 05/12/2023
Tools are provided to help FIs identify critical services and manage third-party risks, and to help regulators supervise such risks.
Fintech / Regtech
HKMA, BOT Launch Cross-border QR Payment Linkage
By Editors | 05/12/2023
Travellers from Thailand and Hong Kong can make retail payments by using their mobile banking apps to scan the Hong Kong and Thai QR codes displayed by merchants.
Market Infrastructure
StanChart HK Becomes Participant of China’s CIPS
By Editors | 04/12/2023
The bank is the first and only foreign bank in the offshore market to directly participate in CIPS.
ESG / Sustainability
IOSCO Proposes 21 Good Practices to Promote VCM Integrity
By Manesh Samtani | 04/12/2023
The Good Practices cover regulatory frameworks, primary market issuance, secondary market trading, and use and disclosure of use of carbon credits.
Fintech / Regtech
Payments Into Europe Can Now Reach Beneficiaries “in Seconds”: Swift
By Editors | 03/12/2023
The EPC’s One-Leg-Out Instant Credit Transfer scheme enables payments to and from Europe to be processed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Market Infrastructure
RBI, BOE Agree to Cooperate on CCIL Information Exchange
By Manesh Samtani | 03/12/2023
The BOE recognises the “primacy” of the RBI in supervising India-based CCPs and agrees to rely on home country regulation and supervision.
Market Infrastructure
SGX Announces First Listings Under Shanghai ETF Link
By Manesh Samtani | 03/12/2023
ETF listed on SGX will give investors exposure to high dividend paying Shanghai stocks. ETF listed on SSE will track Indian and Southeast Asian tech companies.
Crypto / Digital Assets
Third Phase of CBDC Project “Helvetia” Gets Underway
By Manesh Samtani | 01/12/2023
The pilot programme allows participating banks to settle digital bonds and repo transactions against wholesale CBDC on a DvP basis.
Market Infrastructure
HKEX Proposes to Keep Markets Open During Typhoons
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 01/12/2023
HKEX proposes operational model to allow markets to remain open during typhoons and rainstorms from July 2024.
Market Infrastructure
Surge in Retail Investors Spurs Calls for Enhanced Derivatives Regulation
By Nithya Subramanian | 30/11/2023
Senior stock exchange officials emphasised the need for maintaining market order and product ecosystem diversity amid growing reliance on technology.
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