Market Infrastructure

    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.

    ESG / Sustainability

    Singapore Taskforce Issues Climate Disclosure Guide for FIs

    By Editors | 19/05/2021

    GFIT also announced a framework for green trade finance and published a roadmap to scale green finance in the real estate, infrastructure, fund management and transition sectors.

    Market Infrastructure

    HKMA Instructs Banks to Assess Need for Tertiary Data Backup

    By Manesh Samtani | 18/05/2021

    Banks are asked to critically assess the need to set up a secure tertiary data backup to guard against destructive cyber attacks.

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