MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE

    Capital / Liquidity

    CBIRC Finalises Rules Allowing Foreign-Funded Finance Companies

    By Darien Choong | 19/10/2022

    Foreign-funded multinational groups can directly establish domestic finance companies to provide financial services to their member units in China.

    Fintech / Regtech

    India Launches Digital Banking Units to Advance Financial Inclusion

    By Editors | 19/10/2022

    The units were established by 24 banks to house digital infrastructure for the delivery of digital banking products and services in self-service and assisted mode.

    Market Infrastructure

    South Korea Scraps Foreigner Tax on Government Bond Income

    By Editors | 19/10/2022

    The government was planning to waive the tax for non-residents and foreign corporations in January but decided to bring the measure forward.

    Fintech / Regtech

    Kakao Under Probe Over Unprecedented Service Disruption

    By Editors | 19/10/2022

    A fire occurred at a data centre where Kakao operates 32,000 servers that support the vast majority of its mobile services.

    Market Infrastructure

    CSRC Mulls Measures to Increase Stock Trading by Foreign Firms

    By Editors | 18/10/2022

    The CSRC is considering relaxing a rule that currently prevents foreign institutions from engaging in short-term trading activity in onshore markets.

    Capital / Liquidity

    DBS Becomes LCH SwapClear’s First Direct Member in Singapore

    By Editors | 18/10/2022

    DBS will be able to post Singapore government bonds as collateral, making LCH the first global offshore clearing house to accept the asset class as eligible collateral.

    Market Infrastructure

    FSB Proposes to Standardise Global Cyber Incident Reporting

    By Editors | 18/10/2022

    The FSB also proposes to develop a common format for cyber incident reporting, to promote global convergence and better communication among authorities.

    Fintech / Regtech

    China to Interlink All Credit Reporting Systems Nationwide

    By Editors | 17/10/2022

    The PBOC will establish connectivity between all credit reporting systems and platforms nationwide, so data on each economic entity can be combined into a single “credit file”.

    Market Infrastructure

    CME Confirms 14 April 2023 for Conversion of Eurodollar F&O

    By Editors | 14/10/2022

    CME will amend its eurodollar futures and options fallback rules to set the conversion date to 14 April 2023.

    Market Infrastructure

    RBA Suffers, and Recovers from, Four-Hour Outage

    By Editors | 14/10/2022

    The outage disrupted real-time and overnight payments routed through the NPP, causing a backlog of transactions which the RBA is working to clear.

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