United States

The CFTC has the right to terminate the exemptive relief granted to foreign brokers, but current regulations do not provide a specific course of action if exemptive relief no longer warranted.

A US district court has reportedly found three Chinese state-owned banks in contempt for failing to comply with requests for evidence related to a North Korea sanction probe.

The BOJ, FSA and JBA say standardised liquidity requirements for US branches of foreign banking organisations will promote market fragmentation and create global risks.

The SEC has charged three Malaysians, one Singaporean and one Chinese national with violating antifraud and market manipulation provisions.

ICBC Financial Services LLC will pay over $42m to the US SEC for improper handling of ‘pre-released’ ADRs, and $3m to the DOJ for conspiring to rig bids related to the release of ADRs.

The proposals address issues in applying security-based swaps rules in a cross-border context, and leave supervision of foreign trading practices and market structures to home supervisors.

Extradited from Malaysia, the former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng has pleaded not guilty to 1MDB-related charges in the US, and has been released under house arrest.

A US federal judge has ordered three Chinese banks to provide documents in relation to a Hong Kong company which allegedly helped North Korea evade international sanctions.

Chairman Giancarlo seeks regulatory guidance clarifying that entities with calculated initial margin amounts less than $50mn need not make preparations to exchange initial margin.

NZX participants will no longer be required to maintain a reasonable belief that clients are non-US domiciled persons in order to trade on their behalf.