Countries
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NSFR Pushes Singapore Banks to Prioritise Long-term Funding
Editors, Regulation Asia July 20, 2017NSFR requires locally-based D-SIBS to have customer deposits, long-term wholesale funding and equity sufficient to cover extended period of market stress.
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HK’s New Financial Services Chief Advocates Centralised KYC Registry
Editors, Regulation Asia July 20, 2017Top official says updated ID cards with greater security could be used as basis of the centralised KYC; boost Hong Kong's status in fintech.
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APRA Sets out Vision for ‘Unquestionably Strong’ Banking System
Editors, Regulation Asia July 19, 2017APRA says ‘unquestionably strong’ means a CET1 capital adequacy ratio of 10.5% ; some lenders expected to require 150bp increase.
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Singapore Market Infrastructure Regime Gains CPMI/IOSCO Approval
Editors, Regulation Asia July 19, 2017Peer review finds MAS meets all but one of 24 principles designed to shore up systemically important market infrastructure including central counterparties.
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India Could Bring Bitcoin Regulation Under SEBI
Editors, Regulation Asia July 18, 2017Despite earlier talk of blanket ban, panel set up in April close to agreeing model which would give bitcoin similar status to a commodity.
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IFRS 9 – Chaos in Safety
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia July 17, 2017This accounting standard isn’t just for accountants – entire banks will have to seek succour in prudence, targeting better clients and sounder transactions.
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PBOC to Ramp Up Regulatory Oversight
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Emerging Asian Markets Suffer Shutdowns, Cyberattacks
Editors, Regulation Asia July 17, 2017Exchanges in India and Indonesia suffer outages, citing ‘technical issues’; brokers connected to Bursa Malaysia report spate of cyberattacks on two separate days.
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China Exchanges Eye Financial Infrastructure ‘Belt and Road’
Editors, Regulation Asia July 17, 2017SSE, CFFEX meetings to discuss stake in CSE (Chittagong Stock Exchange) follows their participation in consortium which bought 30% of Pakistan bourse.
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2.5KTalking Trading Surveillance with Nasdaq’s Ulf Carlsson
Samuel Riding, Regulation Asia July 13, 2017Regulation Asia discusses the latest trends in regulatory scrutiny of capital markets with Ulf Carlsson, general manager at Nasdaq in Hong Kong.
