Market Infrastructure

Capital / Liquidity

Decline of the House of Basel

By Peter Guy | 26/03/2018

The Basel regime has shown itself to be incomplete and not universally applicable. With the Trump administration seeking to allow a return to proprietary trading, profound implications for global banks’ risk management are only just beginning to surface.

Market Infrastructure

Guo Shuqing to Head China Super Regulator

By Samuel Riding | 26/03/2018

Senior party official will take responsibility for merged banking, insurance regulator, as predicted by Regulation Asia last February.

Capital / Liquidity

India Releases Risk Management Norms for Clearing Commodity Derivatives

By Garima Chitkara | 22/03/2018

Clearing corporations to maintain liquid assets after margins of INR5 million.

Market Infrastructure

China Opens Door to Foreign Payment Firms

By Samuel Riding | 22/03/2018

Foreign companies will be able to set up individual entities, but must keep systems and data onshore.

Market Infrastructure

S.Korea Proposes Asset Manager Remuneration Disclosures

By Garima Chitkara | 22/03/2018

FSC to amend financial services legislation to enhance investor protection by requiring funds to release manager compensation; new rules for easing fund compliance and encouraging crowdfunding also proposed.

Market Infrastructure

HK, India Sign Tax Pact

By Editors | 22/03/2018

Hong Kong investors will pay half the normal withholding tax rate on the interest earned on their investments in India.

Market Infrastructure

Systemically Damaging Cyber-attack Inevitable – DTCC

By Manesh Samtani | 21/03/2018

White paper calls for industry collaboration to develop common response and recovery standards and contingencies to mitigate impending attack.

Enforcement

Japan Introduces AI Market Surveillance

By Samuel Riding | 21/03/2018

System from Hitachi and NEC will identify potential unfair trading, but humans will still be relied on to interpret data.

Market Infrastructure

China to Allow Offshore Listed Firms to Issue Depository Receipts

By Editors | 20/03/2018

Move aimed at attracting back to the mainland China’s overseas-listed tech giants Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu.