MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE

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Thailand SEC Sets Out Three Year Strategic Plan for Capital Market

By Editors | 28/02/2020

The strategic plan includes greater integration of ESG factors in the market, enhancing SME and startup access to capital, promoting the use of digital and e-KYC technologies, among others.

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BOJ Enquires into Banks’ Covid-19 Contingency Plans

By Editors | 28/02/2020

Risks to the banking system came into focus on Thursday when MUFG became the first major Japanese bank to report an infection.

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Indonesia CSD Goes Live with Nasdaq Technology

By Editors | 28/02/2020

The new CSD platform operates at a rate 40 times faster than the previous system, with the ability to manage up to 80,000 settlement instructions per minute.

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Malaysia Stimulus Package to Boost Financial Sector, SMEs

By Editors | 28/02/2020

The measures include an immediate 12-month waiver of listing-related fees for smaller companies, a new capital market investment fund, and additional financing options for SMEs.

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Japan’s Quick Corp Selected to Calculate, Publish Prototype Terms Rates

By Editors | 27/02/2020

Part of the Nikkei Group, Quick Corp will start preparing to calculate and publish prototype term rates based on JPY overnight index swaps.

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ASX Finalises Changes to 3-year, 10-year Treasury Bond Futures Roll

By Editors | 27/02/2020

A consultation on the changes received 36 submissions, largely supportive of ASX’s proposals, citing reduced costs, operational efficiencies and improved order management capabilities.

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Central Bank to Discontinue Sri Lanka Inter-Bank Offered Rate

By Editors | 27/02/2020

This decision reflects the lack of SLIBOR’s usage of in benchmarking loan products in the domestic financial market, along with a global trend of phasing out IBORs.

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BOE to Increase Haircuts on LIBOR-linked Collateral from October

By Editors | 27/02/2020

The market need to see a decisive acceleration in effort in 2020 to ensure risk-free rates are adopted and LIBOR is left behind for good, the BOE’s Andrew Hauser said.

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RBNZ Launches New Payment Settlement System

By Editors | 27/02/2020

Replacing a 20-year old system, the new payment settlement platform comprises an RTGS system known as ESAS 2.0 and a central securities depository called NZClear 2.0.