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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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