Market Infrastructure

Market Infrastructure

Singapore, Malaysia Unveil Plans for Cross Border Stock Trading Link

By Manesh Samtani | 07/02/2018

Link to be operational by year-end; will enable cross-border trading, clearing, settlement of shares between SGX and Bursa Malaysia.

Crypto / Digital Assets

How GDPR Could Deflate the Blockchain Hype

By Bradley Maclean | 05/02/2018

Firms adopting blockchain technology could struggle to comply with the EU’s incoming GDPR rules.

Securities / Derivatives

FIX Releases New Technical Standard on Cybersecurity

By Editors | 26/01/2018

The new technical standard specifies how to use TLS to secure FIX communications, expected to improve cybersecurity across the industry.

Market Infrastructure

South Korea to Introduce AI Market Monitor

By Samuel Riding | 26/01/2018

Korea Exchange says it will introduce AI system in July; could later expand to cover its secondary market, KOSDAQ.

Market Infrastructure

HKEX Says to Improve Risk Management in 2018

By Samuel Riding | 26/01/2018

Charles Li says HKEX to expand Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Connect to include ETFs, but proposed Hong Kong-London equivalent on the backburner.

Securities / Derivatives

SZSE Reports ‘No Major Risks’ in 2017

By Editors | 24/01/2018

Exchange says risk assessments found more than 100 issues of concern but no major threats; to use big data, text mining to improve risk management.

Capital / Liquidity

IMF, World Bank Issue Reports on India Financial Supervision, Market Infrastructure

By Samuel Riding | 24/01/2018

Reports praise progress but suggest more can be done on governance at public sector banks, market infrastructure risk management, among other issues.

Securities / Derivatives

Banks Will Struggle if Prop Trading is Reintroduced

By Peter Guy | 22/01/2018

US banks lobbied hard for a rollback of the Volcker Rule and a return to proprietary trading to bolster profits. They will soon find that it’s now a different world.

Market Infrastructure

LEIs: Asia Following the Rest of the World

By Tony Freeman | 18/01/2018

Firms in the region either embrace, endure or avoid MiFID II’s LEI requirement, but must accept that it’s not just regulations from the US which now have a profound extraterritorial impact.