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Market Infrastructure
RBNZ, FMA Consult on Implementation of FMI Act
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/07/2021
The consultation seeks views on how financial market infrastructures will be identified as systemically important and the proposed approach to developing standards.
Fintech / Regtech
New Body Formed to Promote Open Standards for Capital Markets
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/07/2021
The GLML Foundation is developing general-purpose legal markup language as an open data standard for capital markets.
ESG / Sustainability
IOSCO Proposes Recommendations for ESG Ratings, Data Providers
By ESG Investor | 27/07/2021
IOSCO proposes recommendations to address the risks and challenges associated with products and services from ESG ratings and data providers.
Market Infrastructure
GFXC Updates FX Global Code to Promote PvP Settlement
By Manesh Samtani | 27/07/2021
The changes place greater importance on the use of PvP settlement where available, and provide guidance on risk reduction where PvP settlement is not in use.
ESG / Sustainability
BOJ Sets Out Strategy to Address Climate Change
By Ranamita Chakraborty | 26/07/2021
A measure will be introduced enabling FIs to receive funds from the BOJ against investments or loans made in support of efforts to address climate change.
Market Infrastructure
ISDA to Implement Fallbacks for GBP & USD LIBOR ICE Swap Rates
By Manesh Samtani | 25/07/2021
A consultation on whether ISDA should implement fallbacks for GBP and USD LIBOR ICE Swap Rates received support from a “significant majority” of respondents.
Market Infrastructure
Hong Kong Introduces Bill to Boost FRC’s Regulatory Powers
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 25/07/2021
Under the proposed regime, regulatory powers currently vested with the HKICPA will be transferred to the Financial Reporting Council.
Market Infrastructure
ASIC to Update Guidance on Anti-hawking Regime
By Ranamita Chakraborty | 23/07/2021
The updated guidance reflects the reforms which consolidate three existing hawking prohibitions into a ban covering all financial products.
Market Infrastructure
ARRC Endorses Shift to RFRs for Cross-currency Basis Swaps
By Manesh Samtani | 23/07/2021
From 21 September, interdealer trading in cross-currency basis swaps between USD, JPY, GBP and CHF would reference each currency’s RFR.
Market Infrastructure
ISDA Launches Microsite to Facilitate Understanding of IBOR Fallbacks
By Editors | 22/07/2021
The microsite provides information about adoption rates for the ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol and graphs comparing LIBOR and fallback rates.
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