Securities & Trading
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Asia-Pacific Clearing: The Forward Curve
Editors, Regulation Asia October 6, 2014A growing appetite for derivative products in APAC is having an effect on market structure.
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Taiwan Regulator Eyes Measures to Boost Local Bourse
Editors, Regulation Asia September 26, 2014The government has been closely monitoring the movement of the local stock market, which has taken a beating amid sustained foreign institutional selling.
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Philippine Central Bank May Require Banks to Raise Minimum Capital
Editors, Regulation Asia September 26, 2014Philippine banks may be required to increase their minimum capital by as much as four times, a move that may trigger a consolidation in the local banking sector.
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Myanmar Delays Issuance of Licenses to Foreign Banks
Editors, Regulation Asia September 24, 2014Myanmar has delayed the announcement of foreign banks that will be allowed to operate in the country.
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Bad Debts Weigh on Vietnam Banks
Editors, Regulation Asia September 12, 2014The increasingly high number of businesses that were dissolved in the first seven months of the year has weighed on operations of local banks, raising lenders’ bad debt ratio in the period.
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Regulatory Pressures Drive Demand for Client Management Solutions in Asia Pacific
Editors, Regulation Asia September 8, 2014In a sign of an increasing regulatory pressure for financial institutions in Asia Pacific, regulatory onboarding, entity data and client lifecycle management solutions provider Fenergo is expanding in the region.
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KYC – Reduce the Complexity, Improve the Quality & Lower the Cost of Compliance
Editors, Regulation Asia September 4, 2014Globally, regulators are evolving their Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies for doing business in their jurisdictions to increasingly stringent standards.
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Indonesian Regulator Makes Case for Bank Consolidation
Editors, Regulation Asia September 1, 2014The Financial Services Authority (OJK) is seeking to consolidate Indonesia's banking sector, urging state-owned lenders to acquire stakes in regional banks or BPDs.
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Taiwan to Relaunch Non-Deliverable Forward Forex Market
Editors, Regulation Asia August 27, 2014Taiwan plans to reopen its non deliverable forward (NDF) foreign exchange market in phases after the country closed this down the for the New Taiwan dollar in 1998.
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Taiwan Plans Cross-Border Stock Trading with Japan
Editors, Regulation Asia August 22, 2014Taiwan will study the possibility of launching a cross-border stock trading scheme with Japan in a bid to boost internationalization of the local bourse, said the country's top financial regulator.
