MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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