Capital Regulation
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591HSBC, StanChart Only HK Stocks to Fall Under MiFIR
Editors, Regulation Asia December 29, 2017Only two Hong Kong-listed stocks have sufficient EU volume to comply with MiFIR trading obligations.
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575China, Japan to Cooperate on Audit Oversight, Cross-Border Bonds
Editors, Regulation Asia December 26, 2017The agreement will strengthen cross-border investor protection and assist financial institutions with cross-border bond issuance.
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314India Financial System Stable Despite Worsening Asset Quality – RBI
Garima Chitkara, Regulation Asia December 26, 2017Gross NPAs and asset quality likely to worsen until September 2018 even as capital flows into equity and debt markets remain elevated.
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523ESMA Gives Investment Firms, Issuers More Time on LEIs
Editors, Regulation Asia December 21, 2017Six months forbearance to be allowed for obtaining LEI codes from clients, non-EU issuers of financial instruments.
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572HK SFC to Remove Corporate Treasury of non-Financial Firms from OTC Regulation
Samuel Riding, Regulation Asia December 21, 2017Extensive consultation also proposes to expand risk mitigation requirements to ‘all licensed corporations’, rejects idea of regulatory threshold.
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512MAS to Expand Range of Eligible Collateral to Include Commodities for IRB Banks
Editors, Regulation Asia December 21, 2017Banks using internal ratings for credit risk under Basel guidelines will be allowed to have commodities as physical collateral.
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HK SFC Proposes Raising Capital Required by Fund Managers
Editors, Regulation Asia December 19, 2017Consultation covers raising of minimum capital requirement to HKD10 million, introduction of derivatives use by public funds with enhanced safeguards.
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432Shenzhen, Laos Exchanges Sign MoU on Capital Market Cooperation
Editors, Regulation Asia December 19, 2017SZSE and LSX to share information, personnel, technology, expertise; financial infrastructure connectivity to facilitate cross-border 'economic corridor'.
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502Korea to Ban Foreigners from Cryptocurrency Trading Accounts
Editors, Regulation Asia December 18, 2017Government has made abrupt about turn to legitimize cryptocurrencies by bringing them under greater regulatory purview.
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660Geopolitical Risk a Grave Concern for Financial Services in 2018
Editors, Regulation Asia December 14, 2017DTCC report says cyber risk continues to be seen as greatest threat, but many firms now see geopolitical issues as one of the five biggest concerns.
