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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
Ageing Infrastructure Creating Derivatives Market Inefficiencies: ISDA Chief
By Editors | 10/11/2019
Firms still take more than a day on average to resolve reconciliations and disputes caused by a lack of data transparency through the trade lifecycle.
Market Data & Technology
APRA Launches Superannuation Data Transformation Project
By Editors | 08/11/2019
The initiative aims to drive better industry practices, enhance the consistency of reported data, and make it easier to compare fund and product performance.
Tokenisation
MAS Approves Sandbox Launch of Blockchain Based Bond Exchange
By Editors | 07/11/2019
Singapore-based fintech BondEvalue will use a permissioned blockchain to enable electronical trading of bonds, in $1,000 denominations, with instant settlement and greater price transparency.
Trading & Investment
Tokyo Exchange Goes Live with Upgraded Trading System
By Editors | 07/11/2019
The upgrade will reduce sudden stock price fluctuations, enable participants to more easily execute trades at closing prices, and stabilise system performance.
Structural Regulation
BOJ Calls for Applications from Aspiring Benchmark Administrators
By Editors | 30/10/2019
The BOJ committee is soliciting entities that can begin calculating and publishing term structures based on JPY overnight index swaps as prototype rates.
Market Data & Technology
TSE to Explore New Uses for Margin Trading, Short Selling Data
By Editors | 26/10/2019
Data relating to margin transactions and short selling will be made available to testing participants to identify possible new applications of the data.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
Regulatory Data: Arrows for the Quiver?
By Hannah Cassidy | 25/10/2019
Banks need to be cognisant of how the data they provide to regulators is being used, says Herbert Smith Freehills in its 2019 Global Bank Review.
Structural Regulation
ASIC, ESMA Sign MOU to Cooperate on Benchmarks
By Editors | 22/10/2019
The MoU sets out cooperation arrangements to complement the EU’s July equivalence decision, as well as to ensure effective information exchange and supervisory coordination.
Data Privacy
FSB, IMF Report Progress on G20 Data Gaps Initiative
By Editors | 14/10/2019
The report notes that China is one of the countries that has outstanding issues with removing barriers to full trade reporting and access to trade repository data.
Market Data & Technology
Governance of OTC Derivatives Data Elements Finalised
By Editors | 10/10/2019
The FSB has now published the final governance arrangements for both the UTI and UPI, while CPMI-IOSCO has published the same for the other critical data elements.
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