Market Data & Technology

Payments & Settlements

New Phase of India’s Digital Payments Platform Likely in Mid-August

By Garima Chitkara | 02/08/2018

UPI 2.0 to be released in mid-August will include new features like inward remittances and overdraft facilities. It will exclude a recurring payments feature present in the current platform.

Payments & Settlements

SWIFT Pilots Enhanced Multi-Bank Cross Border Payment Standard

By Editors | 29/07/2018

Pilot participants of SWIFT enhanced gpi standard include 10 multinational corporates and 12 banks; new standard to enable multinational firms to initiate and track gpi payments to and from banks in a single format and integrate payment flows with internal systems.

Structural Regulation

Singapore to Implement New SIBOR Methodology by End 2019

By Garima Chitkara | 26/07/2018

Singapore’s benchmark operators have incorporated feedback from market participants following a consultation that ended in February; the new computation methodology will use a waterfall method incorporating wholesale funding and related markets transactions.

Clearing & Post-Trade

India’s NSE Signs Post-Trade Technology Sharing Pact With Nasdaq

By Garima Chitkara | 04/07/2018

The National Stock Exchange will replace its current post trade platform for all asset classes with Nasdaq’s real-time clearing, risk management and settlement technology, among other cooperative agreements.

Structural Regulation

Australia Completes Financial Benchmark Reform

By Garima Chitkara | 13/06/2018

Reform process completed with the passage of a licensing regime for financial benchmarks as well as new calculation methodology for key interbank rate.

Market Data & Technology

ISDA Seeks Feedback on Common Domain Model for Derivatives

By JP Reimann | 07/06/2018

First digital version of the ISDA CDM covers interest rate and credit derivatives products; aims for efficiency, interoperability, reduced complexity in derivatives market.

Trading & Investment

NSE-SGX Dispute Runs Afoul of MSCI

By Garima Chitkara | 31/05/2018

MSCI considering placing India on notice due to “burdensome” SEBI registration process and stock exchange action that could restrict global availability of investment instruments.

Market Data & Technology

SEBI to Investigate Technical Glitches at NSE, MCX

By Garima Chitkara | 31/05/2018

SEBI has sought a report from both the exchanges to understand the causes of the glitches that led to trading disruptions and the booking of duplicate trades.

Structural Regulation

The Ties That Bind: Market Connectivity Continues to Increase Despite Opposing Rhetoric

By Larry Thompson | 30/05/2018

Whether it is geopolitical tensions in North Asia, the UK’s exit from the European Union or new U.S. trade policies, globalisation would appear to many to be in retreat in many regions of the world — but this is not the case in financial markets.