Markets & Infrastructure

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    ASIC Consults on Internal Dispute Resolution Reporting Requirements

    By Editors | 20/12/2020

    ASIC has adopted feedback on the data reporting requirements from an earlier consultation. Additional feedback is needed before it confirms the next steps for implementation.

    Emerging Prudential Risks

    BNM Launches New Financing Facility for ‘High Tech’ SMEs

    By Editors | 20/12/2020

    The facility will cater to SMEs in advanced manufacturing and services sectors as well as those participating in key government programmes.

    Structural Regulation

    SFC Consults on Amendments to Code on Pooled Retirement Funds

    By Editors | 20/12/2020

    Given the wide participation in Hong Kong by employers and employees in ORSO schemes which invest in PRFs, appropriate investor protection should apply.

    Payments & Settlements

    BCBS, CPMI Warn of Continued Risks Associated with FX Settlement

    By Editors | 20/12/2020

    Expanding the availability of PvP settlement to a wider range of transactions and actors will reduce FX settlement risk and support global financial stability.

    Structural Regulation

    PBOC Publishes Roadmap for Full LEI Adoption in China

    By Manesh Samtani | 18/12/2020

    By end 2022, LEIs will be used in securities and derivatives trading, risk monitoring, regulatory reporting, listed company supervision and the digital yuan ecosystem.

    Trading & Investment

    China Fund Managers Prepare to Launch Cross Market Bond ETFs

    By Editors | 17/12/2020

    Five fund managers have reportedly applied to launch bond index funds that can be traded on the Shanghai exchange, Shenzhen exchange, or the interbank market.

    Structural Regulation

    APRA, ASIC Offer Guidance on Super Fund Obligations

    By Editors | 17/12/2020

    Super funds can capitalise on potential synergies when building systems and processes for their Member Outcomes obligations and Product design and distribution obligations.

    Supervision & Enforcement

    Taiwan Addresses Bank Misconduct With Higher Penalties: Fitch

    By Editors | 17/12/2020

    Banks are expected to work to strengthen their risk controls, particularly around wealth management to avoid penalties and preserve their corporate governance rankings.

    Trading & Investment

    US Treasury Labels Vietnam, Switzerland as Currency Manipulators

    By Editors | 17/12/2020

    Taiwan, Thailand, and India have been added to Treasury’s monitoring list. Singapore intervened in the foreign exchange market in a “sustained, asymmetric manner”.

    Trading & Investment

    Euroclear Bank, Japan Launch New Asset Class: ‘Origami Bonds’

    By Editors | 17/12/2020

    Japanese cities Kobe and Yokohama as well as Shizuoka Prefecture were the first three issuers to utilise the new Origami bond structure.

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