Markets & Infrastructure

    Structural Regulation

    APAC Central Banks Prepare Market for Benchmark Reforms

    By Editors | 27/09/2019

    A group of APAC central banks have issued a report on the regional implications of LIBOR’s discontinuation, BMR implementation, and reforms to local benchmarks.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    ASX Entities Need Stronger Legal Basis to Access Risk Capital

    By Editors | 27/09/2019

    In its latest assessment of ASX’s clearing and settlement facilities, the RBA says the facilities need to strengthen their legal basis to access general business risk capital.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    New Zealand to Introduce New Conduct Oversight Regime

    By Editors | 27/09/2019

    New legislation to implement the regime is expected by year-end, empowering the FMA with stronger enforcement tools and the ability to impose higher penalties for conduct breaches.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    HKMA Updates Rules on Sales of Banking Products

    By Manesh Samtani | 27/09/2019

    Banks may not sell investment, insurance and MPF products in areas that are used for deposit-taking activities, and the face-to-face sales process must be audio-recorded.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    CFTC Proposals on Foreign CCPs Can be Improved: WFE

    By Editors | 26/09/2019

    While the WFE welcomes the CFTC proposals as a step towards reducing regulatory fragmentation, it says they can be made more risk-sensitive and better tailored to today’s markets.

    Trading & Investment

    Taiwan to List First Offshore Nasdaq-100 Index Futures

    By Editors | 26/09/2019

    Monday will mark the first time Nasdaq-100 index futures are listed outside the US, the result of a collaboration between CME Group and TAIFEX.

    Structural Regulation

    Small Finance Banks Rush to Meet RBI Listing Deadline

    By Editors | 26/09/2019

    A three-year deadline to publicly list is approaching for small finance banks that were granted in-principle licences by the RBI in September 2015.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    RBNZ to Start Publishing Regulatory Breaches by Banks

    By Editors | 25/09/2019

    The RBNZ will start publishing banks’ regulatory breaches on its website next year in a bid to improve transparency and market discipline.

    Supervision & Enforcement

    APRA’s Authority Potentially Undermined by IOOF Court Loss

    By Editors | 25/09/2019

    APRA initiated court action against IOOF seeking to ultimately disqualify its executives from the industry, but instead the court dismissed the regulator’s case.

    Trading & Investment

    KRX to Enable Local Access to Foreign ETF Trading

    By Editors | 25/09/2019

    Access will be enabled through an ‘ETF of ETF’ structure, under which locally tradeable ETFs will invest in individual foreign ETFs.

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