Market Infrastructure

Market Infrastructure

India to Tighten Market Surveillance Around Budget Day

By Samuel Riding | 01/02/2017

Move aims to ensure market stability amidst potential volatility; budget could rationalise transaction tax.

AML / KYC

Pakistan, World Bank Ink Technical Cooperation Agreement

By Samuel Riding | 30/01/2017

Cooperation to focus on risk-based supervision and cybersecurity.

Market Infrastructure

HK Announces OTC Derivatives Reporting Tests

By Samuel Riding | 30/01/2017

Licensed corporations need to complete tests by the end of May.

AML / KYC

China Completes Digital Bank Acceptance Bills Trial

By Samuel Riding | 27/01/2017

ICBC and BOC involved in trial which could preface introduction of blockchain-backed legal tender.

Market Infrastructure

ASIC Says Cut Firms’ Regulatory Costs by $233mn in 2015/16

By Samuel Riding | 27/01/2017

Regulator to spend $46mn on data platform, analytics; add trade reporting data to monitoring platform.

Market Infrastructure

India’s Top Banks Eye Blockchain Trade Finance Platform

By Samuel Riding | 27/01/2017

Transaction documents kept on blockchain, reducing need for bank-to-bank reconciliation.

Market Infrastructure

HK Brokers Blackmailed by DDoS Attackers – SFC

By Samuel Riding | 27/01/2017

Regulator urges firms to implement anti-DDoS systems, warns on ‘reflective amplification’ attacks.

Market Infrastructure

S.Korea Considering Looser Bank Ownership Rules

By Samuel Riding | 25/01/2017

Move would allow conglomerates running online-only lenders to inject more capital.

Market Infrastructure

BOJ to Host Distributed Ledger Forum

By Samuel Riding | 25/01/2017

Event will tackle technology discussions under central bank’s joint DLT experiment with European counterpart.