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Market Infrastructure
PBOC Instructs Yuan Fixing Banks to Suspend Counter-cyclical Factor
By Editors | 28/10/2020
The counter-cyclical factor is the adjustment contributing banks make to the daily trade-weighted reference rate that the PBOC has to date used dampen depreciation pressure.
ESG / Sustainability
Due Diligence Questions at the Dawn of the Era of Sustainability
By ESG Investor | 28/10/2020
Experts from Refinitiv, Panarchy Partners and Deep Learning Investments respond to audience questions on due diligence challenges following recent webinar.
Market Infrastructure
Bovill Research Calls into Question Efficacy of FCA’s SMCR
By Shruti Khairnar | 28/10/2020
The FCA’s experience with SMCR could inform senior management regimes in other jurisdictions such as Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.
Market Infrastructure
China Explores Rule Relaxations to Facilitate Cross-Border Investment
By Manesh Samtani | 28/10/2020
China’s regulators are working to further relax restrictions on cross-border investment and create new channels for domestic and foreign investors alike.
ESG / Sustainability
China Outlines Ambitious Plan on Climate Investment and Finance
By Manesh Samtani | 27/10/2020
The plan, backed by five government agencies, includes the introduction of a carbon market and two-way cross-border participation in green finance and climate-friendly investment.
Fintech / Regtech
BIS, Swiss National Bank to Issue CBDC Proof of Concept by Year-End
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020
CBDC research provides an “essential opportunity” to pool knowledge and resources and help enhance cross-border payments, says Benoît Coeuré, head of the BIS Innovation Hub.
Capital / Liquidity
PBOC Issues Draft Law Aimed at Modernising Central Bank System
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020
The draft law expands the PBOC’s role in preventing financial risks, assigns it responsibilities to society, and provides a legal basis for its CBDC, among other changes.
Fintech / Regtech
Australian Treasury Orders Review of Domestic Payments Regulation
By Shruti Khairnar | 27/10/2020
The review comes after two decades of the regulatory architecture of the domestic payments system being largely unchanged.
Market Infrastructure
Australia: New Report Proposes Changes to Financial Advice Rules
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020
The FASEA regime has created a barrier to many people who seek to provide advice services and to consumers who seek to access them, says a new Rice Warner report.
Market Infrastructure
Singapore Publishes Timelines, Guidance to Support Transition to SORA
By Manesh Samtani | 27/10/2020
Under the timelines, all lenders and borrowers will stop issuing SOR-linked loans and securities that mature after 2021 by end-April 2021.
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