Market Infrastructure

Market Infrastructure

Hainan Unveils 3-Year Plan to Improve Investment Environment

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 24/05/2021

The Hainan action plan encourages regional businesses to pursue financing by listing on both domestic and overseas exchanges.

Capital / Liquidity

ISDA Calls for Uniform Approach to Risk Data Reporting

By Manesh Samtani | 22/05/2021

Regulators would have a greater degree of confidence in the consistency and accuracy of the risk data being collected if they used an established industry standard in their reporting requirements.

Market Infrastructure

FCA Consults on Use of New Powers to Facilitate LIBOR Transition

By Editors | 22/05/2021

The consultation will help the FCA decide on what legacy use to permit for non-representative benchmarks and how it will prohibit new use of critical benchmarks that are ceasing.

Market Infrastructure

BNM Consults on Multi-rate Approach to LIBOR Transition

By Manesh Samtani | 21/05/2021

A new discussion paper proposes that the Malaysian ARR be based on overnight transactions in the interbank market, and that the ARR runs in parallel to KLIBOR.

Market Infrastructure

ICMA Publishes ‘Success Criteria’ for Sustainable Finance Taxonomies

By Editors | 20/05/2021

ICMA compares the main features and methodologies of official taxonomies and provides five success criteria for use in benchmarking.

Market Infrastructure

Nomura to Set Up Electronic FX Trading Engine in Singapore

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 20/05/2021

The electronic FX pricing and trading engine will improve execution infrastructure, access to liquidity and price discovery for clients.

ESG / Sustainability

DBS, SGX, StanChart, Temasek to Launch Carbon Exchange

By Editors | 20/05/2021

‘Climate Impact X’ seeks to address a need for more high-quality carbon credits and promote active cross-border trading of such credits to drive global price transparency.

Market Infrastructure

Japanese FIs Still Have $24tr in LIBOR Exposures – Report

By Editors | 20/05/2021

The December 2020 figure is down only slightly from the $27.5tr of contracts referencing LIBOR 18 months earlier at the end of June 2019.

Market Infrastructure

BSP Tests new RTGS System Ahead of June 2021 Go-Live

By Editors | 20/05/2021

The BSP is testing the new peso RTGS system with banks and other participating institutions to determine readiness for go-live in June 2021.