Market Data & Technology

    News coverage on regulatory standards and innovations in market data infrastructure and technologies that support efficient, transparent, and secure financial market operations.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    TAIFEX Outlines Plans to Further Develop Derivatives Market

    By Editors | 12/01/2023

    TAIFEX will introduce customisable options contracts, extend central clearing to TWD-denominated NDFs, and build an ESG information platform for the futures market.

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    Tokenisation

    ESMA Recommends Use of DTI Codes for DLT Pilot Regime

    By Manesh Samtani | 12/01/2023

    The DTI Foundation, a division of Etrading Software, has so far issued ISO-standard DTI codes for over a thousand of the most commonly traded digital assets.

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    Trading & Investment

    SET, TFEX Make Rule Changes to Support New Trading System

    By Editors | 11/01/2023

    The new trading system, developed in partnership with Nasdaq, will boost order execution efficiency and increase capacity for large volume trading.

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    Trading & Investment

    CSRC Proposes Enhanced Rules for Stock Options Trading

    By Editors | 03/01/2023

    The rules allow futures companies to conduct market-making activities for stock options and require stock exchanges to supervise programmatic trading activities.

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    Trading & Investment

    Shanghai Bourse Launches New Trading Supervision System

    By Editors | 03/01/2023

    The new system can process more than 500,000 transactions per second in real-time. New issuance underwriting and offline IPO systems also launched.

    Structural Regulation

    SEBI Proposes Regulatory Framework for Index Providers

    By Manesh Samtani | 29/12/2022

    Index providers could be subject to SEBI’s framework even if they do not know their indices are being used in India, and even if they are not regulated in their home market.

    Trading & Investment

    Thai SEC Launches New Mutual Fund Comparison Tool

    By Editors | 27/12/2022

    The SEC began developing the “SEC Fund Check” application in Q2 2019. A separate application called “SEC Bond Check” is also under development.

    Market Data & Technology

    SFC Calls Out Brokers for Slow Implementation of its Data Standards

    By Manesh Samtani | 23/12/2022

    Brokers are directed to assign one or more MICs to oversee the implementation of the Data Standards, which was meant to be completed in April 2021.

    Structural Regulation

    ESMA Publishes Final Guidelines, Validation Rules for EMIR Refit

    By Editors | 22/12/2022

    ESMA published its final guidelines for reporting under EMIR, the final validation rules, and reporting instructions for outgoing and incoming messages.

    Market Data & Technology

    ICE Opens Access Centres in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo

    By Editors | 18/12/2022

    ICE says the enhanced connectivity includes ultra-low-latency access to exchanges in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.

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