Securities / Derivatives

ESG / Sustainability

LuxSE, India INX Announce New MOU, First Dual Listing

By Editors | 02/06/2022

The MOU promises to facilitate listings of Indian sustainable securities on LuxSE, which will help to enhance their visibility to international investors.

Securities / Derivatives

CSRC to Strengthen Integrity of Securities Issuance Practices

By Editors | 02/06/2022

The guidelines aim to improve systems and mechanisms used by intermediaries to prevent dishonest practices and corruption in securities issuance activities.

Securities / Derivatives

HKEX to Revise Position Limits for Single Stock Options, Futures

By Editors | 02/06/2022

HKEX also proposes to remove the additional position limits that apply to mini-HSI and mini-HSCEI futures and options contracts.

Securities / Derivatives

Korea FSS to Form Taskforce Targeting Illegal Short Selling

By Editors | 02/06/2022

The task force will first conduct fact-finding inspections and investigate areas with a high probability of short selling violations.

Crypto / Digital Assets

UnionBank Issues Philippines’ First DLT-based Digital Bond

By Editors | 02/06/2022

The issuance follows a POC project to optimise bond issuance workflows between STACS and PDTC, the Philippines’ national CSD for debt and equities.

Fintech / Regtech

SGX CDP Enables Access to DLT Bond Issuance Platform

By Editors | 02/06/2022

CDP has made available to market participants a blockchain-enabled bond issuance platform developed by Marketnode, a joint venture between SGX and Temasek.

Securities / Derivatives

China Set to Launch Residential REITs to Boost Property Market

By Darien Choong | 02/06/2022

New rules were issued to facilitate the issuance of affordable rental housing REITs, and to enable already-listed infrastructure REITs to acquire more assets.

Securities / Derivatives

BSEC Tightens Circuit Breaker to Contain Stock Market Loses

By Editors | 01/06/2022

The lower limit was reduced from 5 percent to 2 percent. The upper limit was kept unchanged at 10 percent.

Enforcement

US SEC Penalises Online Broker Over Meme Stock Restrictions

By Mark Johnston | 01/06/2022

In January 2021, TradeZero America halted trading in three meme stocks for about 10 minutes, but later told investors it had resisted instructions from its clearing broker to do so.