Securities / Derivatives

Securities / Derivatives

RBI Panel Offers Path to Develop Home Loan Securitisation Market

By Editors | 10/09/2019

A new intermediary should be created to standardise the underlying mortgage loans, underwriting guidelines and loan servicing standards, the panel says.

Securities / Derivatives

KiwiSaver Reform is Key to Boosting NZ Capital Markets: Report

By Editors | 10/09/2019

Sponsored by the FMA and NZX, an industry working group has recommended changes to the KiwiSaver scheme, saying it will become the predominant pool of retirement savings over time.

Securities / Derivatives

SAFE Approves Three Brokers for Interbank FX Trading

By Editors | 09/09/2019

Citic Securities, Huatai Securities and China Merchants Securities are allowed to conduct interbank forex business both on a proprietary basis and on behalf of clients.

Securities / Derivatives

HKEX Recovers from Derivatives Market Outage

By Editors | 06/09/2019

Derivatives trading was suspended on Thursday due to software issues in HKEX’s vendor supplied trading system, which “have now been isolated”.

Securities / Derivatives

FSC Korea to Ease Major Shareholder Notification Rule

By Editors | 06/09/2019

Institutional investors will be exempt from disclosing major shareholding changes when exercising their rights to remove law-breaking executives or to push for improved governance.

Securities / Derivatives

RBI Task Force Urges Development of Secondary Market for Loans

By Editors | 05/09/2019

The task force recommends easing rules for loan asset securitisation, and to allow secondary market participation from funds and insurers.

Market Infrastructure

Thailand to Digitise Capital Market Processes with DLT

By Editors | 05/09/2019

The project aims to reduce the documentary procedures required in processes related to share issuances and offerings, securities registration, settlement and delivery, and KYC.

Securities / Derivatives

Sri Lanka Proposes Easing of Stock Market Listing Criteria

By Editors | 05/09/2019

Companies will no longer be required to have three years of consecutive profits to list on the main board of the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Securities / Derivatives

China Awards Deutsche, BNP ‘Class A’ Underwriting Licences

By Editors | 04/09/2019

The licences mark the first approvals allowing foreign banks to act as lead underwriter for domestically issued bonds, for both local and foreign companies.