Market Data & Technology

Trading & Investment

TWSE Launches New Continuous Trading System for Equities

By Editors | 22/03/2020

Traders reportedly worry that the change-over could add to recent volatility. Meanwhile, a short-selling ban on certain stocks has been in place since Friday.

Payments & Settlements

SWIFT Defers ISO 20022 Start Date for Cross-border Payments

By Editors | 18/03/2020

ISO 20022 messages for cross-border payments and cash reporting businesses will start from end 2022 instead of November 2021 as originally planned.

Payments & Settlements

SWIFT Reports Near Doubling of Year-on-year gpi Traffic

By Editors | 03/03/2020

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.

Trading & Investment

BOJ Begins Publishing Securities Financing Transaction Data

By Editors | 02/03/2020

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.

Market Data & Technology

MAS 610/1003 Pilot Testing Gateway Set for April Launch

By Manesh Samtani | 02/03/2020

A six-month parallel reporting phase for the new MAS 610/1003 returns was meant to start from 1 April, but this was pushed forward by three months earlier in the year.

Market Data & Technology

Japan’s Quick Corp Selected to Calculate, Publish Prototype Terms Rates

By Editors | 27/02/2020

Part of the Nikkei Group, Quick Corp will start preparing to calculate and publish prototype term rates based on JPY overnight index swaps.

Trading & Investment

ASX Finalises Changes to 3-year, 10-year Treasury Bond Futures Roll

By Editors | 27/02/2020

A consultation on the changes received 36 submissions, largely supportive of ASX’s proposals, citing reduced costs, operational efficiencies and improved order management capabilities.

Structural Regulation

European Commission Launches MiFID II Review

By Editors | 20/02/2020

The introduction of a consolidated tape and enhancements to investor protection are high priority items in the review.

Structural Regulation

ESMA Seeks BMR Exemptions for Noncritical, Third-country Benchmarks

By Manesh Samtani | 18/02/2020

ESMA says BMR’s wide scope has led to an unintended consequence whereby third-country benchmarks are not incentivised to keep providing their benchmarks in the EU.