Market Infrastructure

The IIF paper says fragmentation around climate risk assessment has emerged in the areas of prudential regulation and supervision, market and conduct regulation, taxonomy and disclosure.

Mainland China and Hong Kong have entered into an arrangement for the automatic exchange of country-by-country reports, a welcoming development according to KPMG.

The proposed extension of the Financial Accountability Regime to ASIC-regulated firms could potentially affect 53,000 small businesses, says former ASIC official Pamela Hanrahan.

The HKMA has responded to the US rate cut with a cut of its own. The RBA and BNM have also cut their key policy rates, while the BOJ focuses on asset purchases.

The OECD recommends providing banks with liquidity to allow them to help companies with cash-flow problems, and to consider reducing reserve requirements.

Nearly two-thirds of all payments traffic on SWIFT is now sent via gpi, with the majority of transactions credited to end beneficiaries within 30 minutes or less.

The new exposure draft incorporates a simplified regulatory framework for digital banks applicable during the initial three to five years of operations.

Fragmented approaches to sustainable finance may ultimately undermine the development of sustainable finance through increased complexity and lack of coordination.

The BIS is exploring how to solve key shortcomings related to access and cross-border payments, including to address the global decline in correspondent banking.

The data is collected monthly from approximately 50 financial institutions with the largest SFT trading volume, including transactions with overseas counterparties and intra-group transactions.