Market Infrastructure

Market Infrastructure

NSE, INX, MCX to Jointly Set Up New GIFT City Bullion Exchange

By Editors | 04/03/2021

NSE, India INX, MCX, NSDL and CDSL have agreed to set up a bullion exchange, clearing corporation and depository at GIFT City.

ESG / Sustainability

EU: Delay to Finalised RTS Generates SFDR Uncertainty

By ESG Investor | 04/03/2021

Asset managers had hoped that finalised regulatory technical standards for Level 2 SFDR reporting would be available to assist preparations for Level 1 compliance.

Market Infrastructure

Investment Treaties and Their Role in Protecting Chinese Investors

By Jern-Fei Ng | 04/03/2021

China’s investment treaty network can provide investors a safeguard against significant adverse political and regulatory interferences with their foreign investments.

Market Infrastructure

Japan’s Mizuho Bank Suffers Another Outage at ATMs

By Editors | 04/03/2021

Another system failure took down 29 Mizuho ATMs for three hours on Wednesday, just days after more than 5,000 ATMs went offline.

Market Infrastructure

FSC Announces Selection of Korea’s New Risk-free Rate

By Manesh Samtani | 03/03/2021

The FSC will work on measures to promote and facilitate the use of the new RFR, including by listing RFR futures by year-end.

Big Picture

ASIFMA Calls for Harmonised Approach to Public Cloud Regulation

By Editors | 02/03/2021

Varying regulatory approaches across jurisdictions pose significant challenges to FIs trying to implement the public cloud as part of their global strategy.

Fintech / Regtech

European Banks Push Ahead with Payments Network Plans

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 02/03/2021

The European Payments Initiative, launched last July, could have a new pan-European payments network in place by 2025.

ESG / Sustainability

Malaysian FIs to Start Applying Climate Risk Taxonomy

By Editors | 02/03/2021

Financial institutions will begin capturing exposures based on the Climate Change and Principles-Based Taxonomy over the course of 2021.

Capital / Liquidity

FSB Urges Indonesia to Further Advance OTC Derivatives Reforms

By Editors | 02/03/2021

Indonesia needs to address legal uncertainties relating to netting for derivatives transactions in bankruptcy to facilitate central clearing and margin requirements.