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Trading & Investment
CSRC Approves ZCE Polyester Staple Fiber Futures Contract
By Editors | 28/09/2020
The new contract will provide relevant enterprises open, continuous and transparent price signals and effective risk management tools, the CSRC said.
Sustainable Finance
China Yangtze Power Lists Depositary Receipts in London
By Editors | 28/09/2020
Yangtze Power is the first Chinese issuer to receive LSE’s ‘Green Economy Mark’, which recognises firms that derive at least half of revenues from the green economy.
Trading & Investment
UK Manager Baillie Gifford Sets Up China Fund Unit
By Editors | 28/09/2020
Baillie Gifford has become the latest foreign asset manager to set up a wholly-owned securities investment fund unit in China.
Structural Regulation
Taiwan FSC Issues New Rules on Domestic OBU Accounts
By Editors | 28/09/2020
About 90,000 of Taiwan’s 130,000 OBU accounts are owned by overseas firms that are actually Taiwanese companies.
CBDCs
HKMA Selects ConsenSys to Lead Next Phase of CBDC Project
By Editors | 28/09/2020
Project Inthanon-LionRock studied the application of a CBDC for cross-border payments. ConsenSys will lead implementation of the project’s next phase.
Trading & Investment
Chinese Regulators to Combine QFII, RQFII from 1 November
By Editors | 27/09/2020
The move to combine the QFII and RQFII into a single ‘qualified foreign investor’ regime is aimed at further easing foreign access to China’s capital markets.
Trading & Investment
FTSE Russell to Include Chinese Govt Bonds in Global Index
By Editors | 27/09/2020
FTSE Russell cites significant market infrastructure improvements to expand access to international investors, improve liquidity, and develop settlement and custody processes.
Credit Risk
Australia Prepares to Abolish Responsible Lending Obligations
By Manesh Samtani | 27/09/2020
Lenders will no longer have to assess borrowers’ earnings and expenses to determine whether they can afford to repay their debt without hardship.
Cryptocurrency
EU Unveils Digital Finance Strategy, Crypto-asset Framework
By Manesh Samtani | 27/09/2020
The package consists of a digital finance strategy, a retail payments strategy, and legislative proposals for regulating the crypto-asset sector.
Structural Regulation
EU Sets Out Action Plan to Achieve Capital Markets Union
By Editors | 27/09/2020
The Action Plan seeks to make financing more accessible to European companies and integrate national capital markets into a genuine single market.
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